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“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
by William Wordsworth, pages 29-30
Vocabulary
vales – valleys
sprightly – energetically
jocund – lighthearted
pensive – thoughtful
1. What is the meter of this poem?
The poem is written in iambic tetrameter.
2. What does the daffodil symbolize?
The daffodils by the lake symbolize a memory.
3. According to the author, what other “happy” movement of nature did the daffodils “out
dance”?
In stanza three, Wordsworth writes “The waves beside them” from the nearby lake seemed
to dance also, but the daffodils' movement “Out-did the sparkling waves of glee.”
4. The title of the poem is an example of what literary and poetic device?
“I wandered lonely as a cloud” is an example of simile, a comparison using like or as.
5. Including the above-mentioned comparison of the speaker, what does the personification of
the daffodils, waves, and cloud infer about human nature?
The comparisons and personifications suggest that man and nature are linked to one
another.
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