Lifes Simple Pleasures in William Wordsworths I Wandered Lonely as a

Lifes Simple Pleasures in William Wordsworths I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud Edna St. Vincent Millay once wrote, And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me. This aphorism clear accents the meaning of William Wordsworths poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. In his work, the speaker reminisces about a past bear 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, some of the simplest things in tone go unnoticed and untouched, when, in reality, they are the most precious. Consequently, it is not until after these extraordinary things are kaput(p) forever that their significance 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 section Wordsworth incorporates in his poem to signify the necessity of simplicity in ones life is the simile. The speaker begins his recollection 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 yearning for something more fulfilling as he wanders done life. Often, clouds plow separated from the rest and are left to wander aimlessly through the sky until they find more clouds to fulfill their emptiness. Wordsworth chooses a cloud to bounce the speakers state because, like 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 song of Sincerity. Cambridge Belknap, 1964.Pottle, Frederick A. They Eye and the Object in the Poetry of Wordsworth. Wordsworth Centenary Studies Presented at Cornell and Princeton Univ ersities 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. capital of Nebraska U of Nebraska P, 1965.Wordsworth, William. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. The Bedford creative activity to Literature Reading, Thinking, Writing. 5th 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.