ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -A lyric poem inspired by an event on 15 April 1802, when William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a “long belt” of daffodils in the Lake District, where they lived at the time.

Detailed explanation-2: -"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is a quintessentially Romantic poem, bringing together key ideas about imagination, humanity and the natural world.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the first stanza of ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, ’ Wordsworth explains his one-day occasional aimless wandering. The term “wandered” means walking free of their own accord. The poet is referring to himself as the “cloud” in a metaphorical sense of the word.