Imagery

The poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth relies on imagery to make it more lyrical and appealing. We will outline some specific figures of speech employed by the poet to create imagery.

Similes

Two similes stand out in the text of the poem. In the first one, the poet compares himself in a lonely mood with a cloud travelling in the sky in a rustic setting:

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills, (ll. 1-2)

This similes helps readers understand the poet’s mood. He is aloof and feeling lonely, as detached from the world as a cloud. This suggests that he might feel misunderstood by others and different from most people.

The second simile is the comparison of the daffodils with the starts in the sky. The way the flowers stand in the bay is “continuous as the stars that shine” (l. 7).

This simile makes use of an exaggeration. We know stars are countless and the poet tries to suggest that this is his impression of the daffodils as well. This kind of simile are sometimes referred to a...

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