I-Wandered-Lonely-as-a-Cloud诗歌赏析

IWanderedLonelyasaCloud“IWanderedLonelyasaCloud”waswrittenbyWilliamWordsworth,therepresentativepoetoftheearlyromanticism.Asagreatpoetofnature,WilliamWordsworthwasthefirsttofindwordsforthemostelementarysensationsofmanfacetofacewithnaturalphenomena.Thesesensationsareuniversalandoldbut,onceexpressedinhispoetry,becomecharminglybeautifulandnew.ThispoemimpliesthattherelationbetweenthepoemandnatureisoneofunityandthattheycanbeoneInthispoem,thepoetexpresseshisemotionsbyprovidingthesenseimpressionshehasthroughimagery.Hedescribesapicturesovividlythatitappealsrichlytooursensesandtoourimagination.Thedaffodilsbecomemuchmorethanmereflowers.Theyareasymbolofnaturalbeautyand,moreimportantly,symbolizelivingalifeasrichinexperienceandsensationaswouldmakealifeworthliving.Thefourstanzasofthispoemfollowaquatrain-coupletrhymeschemeofababcc.Eachlineismeterediniambictetrameter.Heachievesmusicalqualitybythemanagementofalliteration(e.g.“Thatfloatsonhigho’ervalesandhills”inline2and“Besidethelake,beneaththetrees”inline5)andassonance(e.g.“beneaththetreesinline5”and“Theystretchedinnever-endingline”inline9)andconsonance(e.g.“valesandhills”inline2).Wordsworthusedalotofrhetorictoexpresshisfeelinginthepoem.(e.g.inline1,thepoetmakesacomparisonbetween“Iwanderedlonely”and“acloud”bytheuseofsimile,thusconveytoushislonelymoodwiththeimageof“cloud”.Hegoesfurthertoimpressuswiththeimageofcountlessdaffodilswithahyperboleinline9“Theystretchedinnever-endingline”.Besides,heusedpersonificationtoendownaturalthingswithhumanbeing’scharacters.e.g.“Tossingtheirheadsinsprightlydance”“Thewavesbesidethemdanced”)therefore,aswereadthepoem,webecomeawareofthepoet’sdeeplovetowardnaturethroughhislovelyandvividdescriptionaboutnaturalthingswithhisfigurativelanguage.