Lifes Simple Pleasures in William Wordsworths I Wandered Lonely as a

Lifes simpleton Pleasures in William Wordsworths I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Edna St. Vincent Millay one time wrote, And all the loveliest things there be come exclusively, so it seems to me. This aphorism all the way accents the meaning of William Wordsworths numbers I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. In his work, the speaker reminisces about a past experience in which he saw a beautiful multitude of daffodils swaying in the breeze. As he recollects this scene, the speaker gradually realizes the true beauty he had found that day. Often, both(prenominal) of the simplest things in life go unnoticed and untouched, when, in reality, they are the just about precious. Consequently, it is not until after these extraordinary things are gone forever that their import is truly understood. Through careful choice of similes, personification, and diction, William Wordsworth clearly expresses that it is the simple things in life, such as Nature, that is so important. One element Wordsworth inc orporates in his poem to signify the necessity of simplicity in ones life is the simile. The speaker begins his medical record with the emptiness he holds inside as he wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high oer vales and hills (Wordsworth 1-2). This simile symbolizes the speakers anxious for something more fulfilling as he wanders through life. Often, clouds become separated from the residuum and are left to wander aimlessly through the sky until they bump more clouds to fulfill their emptiness. Wordsworth chooses a cloud to echo the speakers state because, kindred a cloud, the speaker perhaps feels separated from everything in life and is simply floating through the patches of daffodils without a destination or purpose in hopes that someday he will discover fulfil... ...t Gale Research, 1986. 389.Perkins, David. Wordsworth and the Poetry of Sincerity. Cambridge Belknap, 1964.Pottle, Frederick A. They Eye and the physical object in the Poetry of Wordsworth. Wordswort h Centenary Studies Presented at Cornell and Princeton Universities by Douglas Bush and Others (1951) 23-42. Rpt. in <http//www.galenet.com/servlet/LitRC.Salvesen, Christopher. The Landscape of Memory A Study of Wordsworths Poetry. Lincoln U of nor-east P, 1965.Wordsworth, William. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. The Bedford Introduction to Literature Reading, Thinking, Writing. fifth ed. Ed. Michael Meyer. Boston Bedford/St. Martins, 1999. 1127.-. Preface. Lyrical Ballads. By William Wordsworth. 1957. 111-133. Rpt. in Nineteenth-Century Criticism. Ed. Laurie Lanzen Harris and Cherie D. Abbey. Detroit Gale Research, 1986. 388-389.