I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is William Wordsworth’s lyric about a remembered encounter with daffodils beside a lake. Their abundance and movement transform the speaker’s initial solitude into a moment of shared animation. The poem then shifts from the outward scene to its return in the mind, where recollection brings fresh pleasure long after the encounter. Its familiar landscape thus becomes an account of how attention and memory can continue to enrich inward life.