I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (The Daffodils)
Summary
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (The Daffodils)
A prototypical poem of British Romanticism drawing upon the city-country-dichotomy. In Wordsworth’s famous poem, the speaker describes encountering a field of daffodils beside a lake. The overwhelming image of the dancing flowers will remain and spend “bliss and solitude” whenever the speaker feels “vacant” or in “pensive mood”.
Critical edition
Wordsworth, William. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." William Wordsworth: Selected Poems, edited by Damian Walford Davis, Penguin, 2007, p. 306. 24 l., ISBN 9780140424423