ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” contains a number of similes and metaphors. The similes occur early in the poem (“as a cloud”; “as the stars”). After that the poem becomes more metaphorical. One of the most pervasive metaphors is that the flowers are dancing.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are four kinds of imagery that found in the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. They are visual imagery, kinesthetic imagery, organic imagery, and tactile imagery. Personification is a figure of speech in which a thing (an idea or an animal) is given human attributes.

Detailed explanation-3: -The correct answer is Simile. A Simile is a literary device in with a word or phrase is used to compare or describe another thing. In Simile one thing is like the other, so the word “like” or “as” is used to show the comparison between two things.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the first stanza, the poet uses a simile to describe how alone he feels. Wordsworth feels as if “he wandered lonely as a cloud”. He uses clouds as a measurement to represent his solitude. The clouds are a very significant distant from the ground, so that’s how he wants the reader to imagine his feelings.

Detailed explanation-5: -What is the simile in the first verse? An: I wandered lonely as a cloud‟, is the simile in the first verse.