Impression in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

Stylistics is a linguistic analysis on literary and non-literary texts. This article concerns with a systemic stylistic analysis on a poem in terms of Systemic Functional Linguistics and Verbal Art Semiotics. The article uses library research, qualitative data, documentary study, descriptive method and intrinsic-objective approach. The semantic analysis results in both automatized and foregrounded meanings. Then the automatized meaning produces lexical cohesion and in turn, it produces subject matter. Meanwhile, the foregrounded meaning produces the literary meaning and in turn, it creates theme. Finally, the analysis indicates that the subject matter is about the beautiful daffodil, the literary meaning is about the impressive flower and the theme is about impression of dancing daffodils

Daffodils and Solitude in William Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as A Cloud

PurposeThis study aims to identify the meaning of Wordsworth’s poem entitled I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by analyzing its intrinsic elements. MethodThe present study is qualitative interpretive, focusing on the meaning conveyed in the poem entitled I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud using objective approach by interpreting the poem’s intrinsic elements through repeated reading of the poem as a whole and its details to achieve trustworthy analysis and conclusion. Results/findingsDifferent from general trend in the analysis Wordsworth’s I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, the meaning of the poem is the experience of recalling the sight of the daffodils, which brought solitude to the speaker of the poem. The poem’s subject was not the daffodils, but the experience of encountering them and its recollection. As a traveler traveling in the countryside, the speaker viewed the sight of the daffodils in a positive tone through imageries of sight, internal sensation, and muscle movements related to good experiences, as well as dictions of natural views with positive connotations. The poem includes simile, personification, metonymy, and symbols to compare the beautiful crowd of daffodils and the solitude they bring to the speaker of the poem’s mind when he was recalling the sight of the dancing daffodils. ConclusionUsing Abram’s objective point of view, the analysis reveals the daffodils as representative of nature become the remedy for human’s loneliness as represented by the speaker of the poem by recalling the experience of seeing them, sending the message that appreciation of nature and the experience with nature should be maintained to create a tranquil life

Nature as a Powerful Force in Literature

This paper was originally written for Dr. Margaret Linley, for a lower-division English course, ENGL 115W. The assignment asked students to reflect on the interconnectedness of literature and nature through analysis of both the form and content of a piece of text discussed in class. The text chosen to highlight the integral relationship shared between nature and literature was William Wordsworth’s poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud.” The paper uses MLA citation style

Colonial and Postcolonial Deployment of \u27Daffodils\u27

This paper is about Wordsworth\u27s \u27daffodil poem\u27 and what has been made of it since it was published as \u27I wandered lonely as a cloud\u27 in 1807. In this paper I take issue with postcolonial writers like Jamaica Kincaid and Michelle Cliff who position Wordsworth\u27s \u27daffodil poem\u27 at the centre of British imperialism. I also take issue with J. Edward Chamberlin who has recently repositioned the poem as marginalized and radical. My position, as my title indicates, is that \u27Daffodils\u27 has been deployed in both colonial and postcolonial contexts: that it is neither central nor marginal to British imperialism in itself, but has been found very useful at certain historical moments. My interest in this idea of \u27deployment\u27, probably quite reactionary and not all that exciting in itself, is in what is also swept up by implication when \u27Daffodils\u27 is deployed and redeployed

The unfolding of the process of creation in William Wordsworth's meditative poems

The following paper provides a discursive analysis of four of William Wordsworth's meditative poems taking into account linguistic aspects - such as lexicon, cohesion, style and metre - and literary and philosophic aspects. The objective of this analysis is to offer a clear literary and linguistic identification of similar creative constructions in terms of an identifiable pattern. The aim is on the one hand to prove that there is a common blueprint with which some of Wordsworth's poems were written and on the other to establish what this blueprint is.El present treball ofereix un anàlisis discursiu de quatre poemes meditatius de William Wordsworth tenint en compte aspectes lingüístics - tals com lèxic, cohesió, estil i mètrica - i aspectes literaris i filosòfics. L'objectiu d'aquest anàlisis és oferir una identificació literària i lingüística clara de construccions creatives semblants en termes d'un patró identificable. La finalitat és per una banda, demostrar que hi ha un patró comú amb el qual Wordsworth va escriure alguns dels seus poemes i per una altra, establir quin és aquest patr

I Wandered Lonely as a Spy: Advanced Study and Elementary Research

Distinguished Lecture of the Institute and Society for Advanced Study given on October 9, 1998