William Wordsworth is popularly known as a nature-lover and this small poem has probably had a great role in establishing that image. As he expresses in his poem, the daffodils left a great impression on him. He was so much moved that he went on to personify the flowers — “dancing in the breeze”, “tossing their heads” etc. Secondly, to express his emotions the poet has exaggerated the flowers saying “when all at once I saw a crowd” and “they stretched in never-ending line”.

Thirdly, the poet has repeatedly talked about his happiness in the company of the flowers. “sprightly dance”, “out-did the sparkling waves in glee”, “a poet could not but be gay/ in such a jocund company”, “my heart with pleasure fills” — the positive aura flows throughout the poem. So charmed was he that he “gazed and gazed” towards the daffodils. And those flowers flashed upon his inward eyes long after the scene was gone. The memory of the flowers remained with him as “the bliss of solitude“.

The daffodils had an everlasting impact on poet’s mind. The poet’s mind receives an impression of meeting such joyful companions that he forgets his melancholy. He is mesmerized and captivated by daffodils dancing with such liveliness and happiness. He is enchanted by the beautiful scene and thus compares their beauty to twinkling stars which represents the large number of daffodils which etched his mind with a pleasant encounter of a mere memory of sight of golden daffodils that whenever the poet is in sad or pensive mood, the flash of sight uplifts his spirit and his mind dances with same happiness and liveliness as that of golden daffodils.

The speaker of the poem is unhappy at first, before he walks along a lake with daffodils to the side of it, blowing with the breeze and reflected in the water. The speaker sees the flowers as both comfort and company, and he keeps the memory of this moment with him for whenever he is upset again. The central idea is the healing the speaker experiences from the lovely sight.

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I wandered lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils) Summary

William Wordsworth, the renowned English poet, had just lost his elder brother when he wrote this poem. This loss had given him a great setback. He remained in solitude all day long and did not interact with anyone. Seeing his misery, his sister urged him to have a walk with her. He was roaming like a lonely cloud in the vale when he saw a large number of golden daffodils beside a lake that were fluttering and dancing happily in the breeze. Their enchanting beauty surpassed the beauty of the dancing and sparkling waves in the nearby lake. The poet could not help being happy in such a jolly company. He was absolutely amazed as he stared at them. After that, whenever Wordsworth would be in a melancholic mood, the memory of these golden flowers would flash in his mind and make him happy.