"The emphasis on the imagination is intrinsic to the poetry of William Wordsworth, therefore Wordsworth's poems can be evaluated as visionary supernatural" David Higgins
In William Wordsworth's "Daffodils" (also know as "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud") it can be seen that there are two types of imagination. Although it is possible to identify these two types of imagination, they cannot be completely separated from each other due to their logical connection. The first type of imagination is used to depict the nature and natural objects the speaker sees. This can be seen very often in the first three stanzas. Throughout first three stanzas, speaker depicts the beauty of the nature that he sees by using imagination. The second type of imagination is the imagination of remembering a memory which occurs in the final stanza. In the final stanza the speaker recalls a memory which is mentioned in the first three stanzas.
At the beginning of the poem, the speaker is depicted as lonely and isolated from society. The opening line and title of the poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud provides information on the speaker's loneliness and isolation. The reason behind the choice of "Cloud as a vehicle is that a cloud is over the whole nature, but is not really a part of the nature because it can only watch them from a distance. As Butler argues, the speaker is remote from the natural world, as is a cloud that soars distantly above that world (51). This makes the cloud lonely and isolated from the rest of the nature. Like the cloud, the speaker is isolated from society. This situation is also mentioned in line 2 "That floats on o'er vales and hills." Line 2 provides also a reason for the cloud's isolation and loneliness. The cloud is alone because it "floats on o'er vales and hills."
Dance (also dancing and to dance), which is used in every stanza of the poem, symbolises happiness and joy of life. Dance is an action which is mostly understood ...
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