I wandered lonely as a cloud
我独游于天际，如一朵流云
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
凌空于谷峰，飘然然悠闲。
When all at once I saw a crowd,
忽地，我看见了一群，
A host, of golden daffodils;
一簇簇金黄色的水仙；
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
看——在树之荫，湖之缘，
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
在微风中，她们舞姿翩翩。
Continuous as the stars that shine
她们似银河星钻，连延不断，
And twinkle on the milky way,
碧银银，闪闪发光，
They stretched in never-ending line
沿着湖湾的水缘线，
Along the margin of a bay:
伸向无穷无尽的远方：
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
一瞥去便是一万朵，
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
轻舞中花首频颠簸。
The waves beside them danced; but they
波光里的涟漪也舞弄清影，却
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
怎比得水仙的欢快；
A poet could not but be gay,
伴有这等喜悦，
In such a jocund company:
诗人如何不快！
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
我——久久凝视——但毫无答复，
What wealth the show to me had brought:
可知这景致给予我多少财富：
For oft, when on my couch I lie
每当我久卧不眠，
In vacant or in pensive mood,
心绪空荡，或忧思难抱，
They flash upon that inward eye
她们便闪现在心田，
Which is the bliss of solitude;
正如寂寥中的光照；
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
于是我的心儿满溢着欢畅，
And dances with the daffodils.
同这群水仙起舞歌唱！

it was three years ago. is this question really necessary for you now?

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” was written by William Wordsworth, the representative poet of the early romanticism. As a great poet of nature, William Wordsworth was the first to find words for the most elementary sensations of man face to face with natural phenomena. These sensations are universal and old but, once expressed in his poetry, become charmingly beautiful and new. His deep love for nature runs through short lyrics such as “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the milky way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

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.

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is a poem about nature. With his pure and poetic language, Wordsworth brings us into a beautiful world where there are daffodils, trees and breeze. We follow the poet at every turn of his feelings. We share his melancholy when he “wandered lonely as a cloud” and his delight the moment his heart “with pleasure fills ”. We come to realize the great power of nature that may influence our life deeply as revealed in the poem.

Edgar Allan Poe once described poetry as “ music… combined with a pleasure idea”. In the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, the poet also makes great use of the “music ”of the language to achieve sound beauty in addition to convey meaning. He employs masculine rhyme in “a, b, a, b, c, c” pattern to receive emphasis as a musical effect. (e.g. “cloud” (a), “hills” (b), “crowd” (a), “daffodils” (b), “trees” (c), “breeze” (c) in stanza 1). He also achieves musical quality by the management of alliteration (e.g. “That floats on high o’er vales and hills” in line 2 and “Beside the lake, beneath the trees” in line 5) and assonance (e.g. “beneath the trees in line 5” and “ They stretched in never-ending line” in line 9) and consonance (e.g. “ vales and hills” in line 2 ). Besides the repetition of sounds, the poet also makes his poem a strong appeal for us in language that is rhythmical. He arranges his poem in lines of iambic tetrameter in the main with alternation of iambic trimeter.

( e.g. I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills

When all at once I saw a crowd

A host, of golden daffodils

Beside the lake, beneath the trees

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze )

He slowed down the tempo in line 4 to keep in accordance with his bated breath the moment he glimpses at a host of golden daffodils thus convey to us the poet’s intoxication in the face of nature. With all these musical devices, Wordsworth secures a songlike effect of his poem in addition to communicate his emotion and meaning.

An old saying goes “There are pictures in poetry and poetry in pictures”. It finds its most eloquent examples in most of the Chinese Tang poems that present the readers with beautiful pictures. In the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, the poet also seeks to express his emotions by providing the sense impressions he has through imagery. He depicts a picture in which “a host of golden daffodils (visual imagery) fluttering and dancing in the breeze” (kinaesthetic imagery) so vividly that it appeals richly to our senses and to our imagination.

Wordsworth, in the poem, also employs figurative language to evoke not only the visual effect but also the emotional response. (e.g. in line 1, the poet makes a comparison between “I wandered lonely” and “a cloud” by the use of simile, thus convey to us his lonely and melancholy mood with the image of “cloud”. In line 7, he also amplifies the visual effect by the use of another simile “Continuous as the stars that shine…” to evoke our sense of “daffodils” with the image of “stars” twinkling on the milky way which is familiar to us all. He goes further to impress us with the image of countless daffodils with an overstatement in line 9 “They stretched in never-ending line”). Besides, natural things are also endowed with human being’s characters by the poet’s subtle use of personification. (e.g. “Tossing their heads in sprightly dance” “The waves beside them danced”) therefore, as we read the poem, we become aware of the poet’s deep love toward nature through his lovely and vivid description about natural things with his figurative language.

What’s more, Wordsworth goes further to communicate his emotion and meaning by his thoughtful tone. The choose of the word “lonely” in “I wandered lonely as a cloud” instead of other words like carefree, leisure or jolly convey to us the poet’s depression and disconsolateness at the very beginning. But as he catches sight of daffodils stretching as far as the eyes can see and finds himself in the midst of nature, his loneliness turns into relaxation and joy. Thus the shift of the poet’s mood from sadness to happiness manifests the theme --- the great influence of nature upon human being.

1. What is the relation between the poet and nature as described in the poem?
The poem implies that the relation between the poem and nature is one of unity and that they can be one. The poem has become nature itself in the poem.

2. Do you think nature can have healing effect on mind?
Yes, I do because man is part of nature

1. In the poem, the poet assumes himself as a cloud, enjoying the beauty of nature from above and being a part of it as well.

2. Yes, I think it can. Imagine yourself in the midst of nature,surrounded by the hills, flowers, lake and the breeze, how can it not relax and heal your mind just like ‘a bliss of solitude'.

1 The writer describe a felling by a cloud in the air to say his lone.
2 Sureiy it can.If we see a beautiful thing ww'll have a soft mood.But a ugly thing just like a polluted river can you stil get a high mood?You certainly can't.That's a simple example to say that the nathre can affect our mind.