Because of the metaphor of the cloud which is a passive element of nature, I might expect the poem to deal with a passive person, brought to wander by the necessity to find a solitary place to relax, to think and to have  particular feelings.

The curiosity rised from the title is to find out why the speaking voice, the I, is walking without a definit direction and, last but not least why he moves alone and where.

The poem is set in the countryside and tells about a poet's experience.

The text consists of four stanzas of six lines (sestes).

The poet was walking around the countryside when suddenly he saw a field of daffodils.

He lived a visual experience: the flowers where so many and he was alone.

They were near a lake and they were moved by the wind.

He stopped and looked at the scene in admiration.

The daffodils in front of his eyes were moving as if they were dancing.

In the first and second stanzas, the poet describes the beauty and the moltitude of the flowers (crowd, host, continuous, never-ending line, ten thousand) in opposition to his state of solitude. The similie of the stars that shine and the flowers conveys the idea of the quantity of the daffodils and of their bright yellow colour.

The daffodils express the idea of beauty, energy and vitality of nature.

The relationship between the poet and nature is presented as an aid to humanity to understand how to be naïve, pure and innocent again. Nature is a moralising force, a teacher for human beings and also it creates pleausure.

The third stanza is focused on the poet's feeling of harmony and glee (a poet could not but be gay)which is shared with the daffodils (jocund company).

The word "waves" helps the reader to create the image of moltitude of the daffodils in his mind and the idea of their movement due to the wind.

Furthermore the poet realizes he was so caught by the scene that he could not even think about the wealth the show would bring to him (I gazed but little thought).

In the last stanza the poet explains what happened to him when he was lying on his sofa and he rememberd his experience in the country.

The poet explains how much Nature is important as it conveys refreshment, it creates harmony and it activates imagination in the poet's mind.

With his imagination the poet is able to see the flowers again thanks to his inward eye.

The poem is born from a record, it is the expression of what the poet has already felt and that he remembers while he is in tranquillity.

The poet makes a metaphorical use of  verbs (dancing, danced, dance dances) assigning a living being's action to the flowers and so he creates connects between the various parts of the poem.

The use of the metaphorical verbs expresses the poet's positive mood creating also an analogy with the image of the daffodils.

It may be important to underline the use of verb tenses: a separation is created. The experiences lived in the past are described in the first stanzas while the poet's actions made in the present are exposed in the last stanza.