What is I wandered lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils) About and Why Should I Care? It is typical of Wordsworth’s revolutionary style of writing poetry in ordinary, everyday language.
With its expressions of joy and unity with nature, the poem is destined to remain a classic. He revised the poem and published it again in his Collected Poems, which is the version most people read today. Wordsworth didn’t write this poem until 1804, and it was published in 1807 in Poems in Two Volumes. She later writes that it rained on them, and they had to go home. ( source)Īs the journal notes, it was a stormy day, which you’d never guess from reading the poem.
I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake, they looked so gay ever glancing ever changing. 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 & that the little colony had so sprung up - But as we went along there were more & yet more & 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. Fortunately for us, Dorothy kept a journal, and she wrote about the day that she and her brother unexpectedly came across a "crowd" of daffodils: The poem is based on an experience that he had with his sister and constant companion, Dorothy, on April 15, 1802. He lived in the picturesque Lake District in England. Wordsworth is a British poet who is associated with the Romantic movement of the early 19th century. Many people know this poem simply as "Daffodils," but the title is actually "I wandered lonely as a Cloud." In very plain language, it describes how the speaker’s loneliness is cured by a field of daffodils – you know, the yellow flowers with the center that looks a bit like a trumpet horn. This is, however, a very well-known poem, in part because it’s so darned cheery. But seriously, Wordsworth did not write many poems about daffodils. The official Wordsworth Museum bills "I wander lonely as a cloud" as William Wordsworth’s "most famous poem about daffodils," which is a bit like referring to Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous poem about ravens. The texture itself makes me feel like it's a well-worn/loved memory or poem, and the borders I added on the side, fading away towards the top, frame it nicely, I think.I wandered lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils) Introduction It's warmer than my original image, and I feel it conveys a more human feeling than the other did. It made the colours a good deal more saturated, but I quite like the effect. After doing that, I found an antique paper image to use to add texture to my design. So I took it, changed the shade of blue, and relocated it towards the bottom of the image, rewriting the first line so that the word 'lonely' would take up the central part of the 'eye'. It felt like a good idea to put William Wordsworth's name in there, almost like an iris, but once I'd done it, it didn't quite fit. When I decided I wanted to put the poem onto the image, I found that first the text wasn't thick enough, then felt that I would be trying to cram the title in above the cloud, so I had the idea to shape the title/first line into the general eye shape I'd had in my cloud. Only vaguely interested at first, and then more engaged towards the end of the letter's shape. With the text, I wanted the title/opening line to feel like each letter was wandering into its shape. I also wanted a gradient switching from a cool, slightly desaturated blue to indicate calmness and a sort of austere environment, to a warm and happy golden-yellow to indicate looking from your own state into the happy state of memory.
Originally, as you can see in the sketches, I was really fixated on a cloud with an eye in it (the cloud representing Wordsworth) so that the gaze of this wanderer could be directed towards something - namely the daffodils (the image I found being from Grafiteria). I liked the results a lot, so I decided to share it. I kind of did the project as I watched (so I did I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud), as I hadn't looked at the project gallery or the class project.
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