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But I wonder if, in the case of Wordsworth, ... the poet unconsciously engages the archetype. In any event host does carry several semantic possibilities, each of which resonates with and amplifies the others...These layers of "hosting" help us understand how deeply - and doubly - daffodils affect the poet's mind.

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Host functions first as a noun, but it can also be a verb: "to play the host" (OED). Juxtaposing the nominal and verbal uses, one can see that it is the "host" that "hosts" the event. Thus, the noun host doubles, at least semantically, with the verb's meaning. Such linguistic doubling corresponds to the "layered" effect nature has on the poet.

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The golden daffodils...beauty invokes a correspondent spiritual beauty, as a heavenly host of angels would. Thus, the angelic "host" of flowers enables the poet to participate in a kind of spiritual beauty associated with nature.

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For one thing, the intent gazing signals a meditative moment akin to spiritual activity: As he drinks in nature's beauty, the poet attains an elevated state of mind. And the last stanza repeats the experience through memory. But in the latter case, the effect is produced only when the flowers "flash upon that inward eye." Although the "inward eye" is generally taken to be the imagination, it also has a metaphysical application

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The lonely poet sees the "jocund company" and becomes happy. But on another level, the event moves through a transposition into a spiritual experience

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Hartman emphasizes that the analysis of Wordsworth's poetry is not a simple task, and his response may be quite complex, and may be delayed over many years.

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In some of the poet's responses to nature, for example, there are elements which are very similar to the Puritan idea that those elected by God (that is, those chosen to be saved) experience a connectedness with the natural world.

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In his essay "The Eye and the Object in the Poetry of Wordsworth," Frederick A. Pottle points to "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" as a demonstration of Wordsworth's related claims that "Poetry takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity" and "I have at all times endeavoured to look steadily at my subject.

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The final stanza emphasizes much the same experience, only this time it occurs through memory - the poet lies on his couch and recalls the "host," which then triggers the mind's reaction. Now to circle back to the wordplay. Because the "host" initiates the effect, it is... the agent that "entertains." Or as the American Heritage Dictionary puts it, a "host" is the "one who entertains guests, a master of ceremonies." Wordsworth's reference to his experience as a "show" incorporates this second meaning. The pun, therefore, allows us to see the "host" - the daffodils - as a "master of ceremonies" or guide who treats the guest - Wordsworth - to a "show," which is both the "dancing" flowers and their effect on the poet. The punning grows more complex as we delve deeper into the nature of the show.

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LINE 24- For Wordsworth, the poetic imagination unifies nature—that is, it regards it as a whole and even makes it a whole. Notice that in the poet's memory, the cloud, the daffodils, the stars and the waves all are put in motion by a single force—the wind. In this way each phenomena is made part of a larger whole.

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LINE 24- In his preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth declared that poetry was the product of "emotion recollected in tranquillity." And so these lines show that the occasion of the sighting of the daffodils has become a memory which is inspiring, life-affirming, and sustaining. If the events of the first three stanzas are to be the subject of a poem, they should not be described directly; the poet expecting to write a good poem would not say "When all at once I saw a crowd." Rather, he would recall the event, and thereby allow himself to see more deeply into it.

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LINE 21- The "inward eye" is the self-reflective, contemplative mind. In "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," Wordsworth uses a similar image: an "eye made quiet by the power / Of harmony."

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LINE 13-14- The waves (like the stars), the daffodils, and the speaker himself are all things that are moved by the wind. This may suggest that the wind is what unifies these seemingly unrelated objects.

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The poem touches on the themes of Mans relationship with nature, happiness, solitude and memories.

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I wandered lonely as a Cloud (Daffodil) is a narrative poem. It consists of meters of iambic tetrameter.

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Wordsworth uses a lot of personification (nature and his heart), imagery (nature) and similes (nature).

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While Wordsworth does find appreciation in nature, he perhaps romanticizes his recollection of the daffodils, "I gazed—and gazed—but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

FOR OFT, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

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Wordsworth shows his love and appreciation for nature in this poem. As well as how he is able to appreciate and find meaning in the little things in life.

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Poem is separated into four stanzas and has a simple ABABCC rhyme scheme .

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The poem overall is about a time where Wordsworth felt lonely. Seeing a patch of daffodils lifted up his spirits. At the moment he did not truely understand his appreciation for the captivating flowers. He was just mesmerized by them dancing the the breeze. He often thinks of the daffodils when he is deep in thought. Perhaps when he is feeling down. Remembering them brings him a sudden burst of happiness.

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Wordsworth uses the word "host" similar to the Nativity story in the Bible when a host of heavenly angels appeared to the sheppards to bring them the good news that would bring joy to all people, that Jesus was born. Like the angel, the spotting of the daffodils was sudden and brought Wordsworth happiness when he felt lonely.

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Wordsworth is feeling lonely and down. Perhaps depressed even. He compares himself to a "lonely" cloud, passing over a field.

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Wordsworth personifies his heart by saying that upon thinking of the pleseant memory of the daffodils, it dances with the flower.

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Shift in time. Wordsworth talks about how he often reminisces on the "golden" daffodils when he is able to. They flash upon that inward eye. The recollection brings him peace and happiness.

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As a poet, Wordsworth appreciates the meaning that the little things in nature brings. However he did not in the moment truely understand the impact that "golden" daffodils had on him.

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Wordsworth mentions the sea but states that the "sparkling" waves were nothing compared to the beauty and happiness of the captivating daffodils.

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Wordsworth compares the patch of "golden" daffodils to an infinite stretch of mesmerising stars. Uses personification of the daffodils "tossing their heads in a sprightly dance"

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Upon passing over the field, Wordsworth becomes captivated by a beautiful stretch of "golden" daffodils.

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LINE 9-12- The suggestion of the daffodils as angels is furthered by these lines—they are "continuous,"; star-like, never-ending, and innumerable.

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LINE 7- Wordsworth surprises us with nearly every line. We had imagined the daffodils as changeable, moved by a mere breeze, yet here (and in quite another sense) they are "continuous"; implying that perhaps they exist either in an uninterrupted line, or that they remain unchanged over time.

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LINE 6- The daffodils, like the cloud, are also moved by the wind. This line ends a sentence, and the reader is here invited to rest. The daffodils are "fluttering and dancing," of course, because the wind moves them; and so there is a suggestion that the force which moves the cloud aimlessly may in certain circumstances have results which are happier and more creative.

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LINE 3- As the reader ends this line, he is likely to imagine that the "crowd", being composed of many people, would bring the speaker's loneliness to an end.

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LINES 17-18-The repetition of "gazed" indicates an intense activity, almost as if the poet were in a trance. Such an event bespeaks a shift in consciousness...

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The usage of the word "host" as a pun depicts the poet's admiration of the beautiful daffodils... Wordsworth defines `host' as a "crowd" of flowers whose radiant bloom brings him deep psychological relaxation and transports him into an equally rich spiritual experience.

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Nature writer William Wordsworth uses a writing style of Arnoldian `high seriousness' rather than a playful use of words in his poem "I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud."

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LINE 22- The word "Which" refers to the "inward eye." The sense is that the pleasure of solitude—of being alone—is in self-reflection. But recall that in the first line the speaker was "lonely"; solitude was melancholy. Here, "solitude" is "bliss." The speaker has greatly changed his view; he has learned the value of being alone, and he has learned it through the sight of daffodils.

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LINE 15-16- Here the speaker declares that a " poet" cannot help but be happy among the "company" of daffodils, his gaiety thus confirming the end of his loneliness. But the first use of the word " poet" seems important, too. It may be that the daffodils have made the poem `s "I" a poet .

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LINE 8- The metaphor is nearly perfect, and the apparent contradiction is resolved in this image: the stars are steady and unchanging—they remain in the same relative positions every night—but they also twinkle, the intensity of their light seems to vary. Of course, stars twinkle because the air through which we see them is constantly in motion. Again, the wind (or a kind of wind) appears to be a necessary component of beauty and inspiration.

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LINE 4- The word "crowd" is now redefined as a host and is composed not of people, but of flowers. The word "host" also has a religious overtone; the army of angels is traditionally called a "host of angels." The daffodils are made at once to seem heavenly and angelic. The comma after the word "host" stops the reader for a moment, and heightens the surprise at discovering, two words later, the nature of that host.

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LINE 1- The metaphor prompts one to ask: why should a cloud be lonely? It is because the poet is using a simile, a comparison between two dissimilar things. By using this technique, the speaker suggests that like a cloud moved by the wind, he moves not of his own will, but rather by outside forces.

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Hartman contends that although Wordsworth appears unaware of the commonalities between his ideas and those ideas of any formal religion, his own observations and detailed descriptions of nature contain deep religious overtones.

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In his book Wordsworth's Poetry: 1787-1814, Geoffrey Hartman suggests that Wordsworth's approach to the creative process demonstrates a kind of spirituality

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Pottle suggests that the "subject" in Wordsworth's viewing is internal: that is, it is a mental image which he regards with the "inward eye" mentioned in line 21. Wordsworth's creative process requires him first to contemplate an image, then look steadily at it, and finally to simplify it until it comes to represent a single emotion.

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Wordsworth's manner of viewing his subject is not that of the nineteenth century scientist—that is, it does not dissect the subject and view it as separate from its context. Rather, Wordsworth views the subject as a part of the environment which surround it.

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The poem, Pottle suggests, is typically Wordsworthian in that it draws upon a memory from years past.

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Dorothy Wordsworth greatly influenced much of her brother's work, and the inspiration for the poem seems to have occurred while the siblings were on a walk or ramble. An entry from Dorothy's journal (dated April 15, 1802), for example, reads:

When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the water-side. We fancied that the lake had floated the seeds ashore, and that the little colony had so sprung up. But as we went along there were more and yet more; and at last, under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road. I never saw daffodils so beautiful. They grew among the mossy stones . . . some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness; and the rest tossed and reeled and danced, and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind, that blew upon them over the lake; they looked so gay, ever glancing, ever changing.