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I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
I wandered Lonely as a cloud is a simple yet beautiful poem that describes the beauty of nature and how it can inspire our lives. Wordsworth uses images to describe the scene to the reader, like a painting on a canvas; that explains vividly how the poet saw it. An example of the creativity is how the daffodils presented an almost human quality in the way they resemble dancers dancing in unison as if presenting a show. At the end of every alternate line of the poem there is a rhyming word, giving the poem both continuity and a sense of rhythm throughout.
For my conceptual analysis I chose ‘nature thrives unnoticed” in other words, nature is content in a continuous splendor that is constantly changing at such a rate that it often is unappreciated and un-acknowledged. The oblivious trait that humans have serves as an upper hand to nature because the less we see the more nature shows; this is true by seeing how rapid nature evolves it gives us the understanding of how life is short, and how slowing down is living.
A figurative analysis of ‘daffodils’ has more of a symbolic meaning in which there are five aspects of the flower that each has a distinct sense of significance. As a whole the flower signifies faith, in which every aspect of the daffodil has a meaning; the petals represent harmony and the color is life giving attributes, the shape is awareness, and lastly the scent is our relaxation in life. All in all, the daffodil plays a big role in bringing out big things from small beings and contributing it to nature.
Milky Way at first thought would be the galaxy and how it’s a unknown and unfamiliar place. The symbolic meaning for Milky Way would be how space is the canvas of our dreams, everything we could wish for or need would appear on the Milky Way twinkling and looking down on us; tempting us to catch our dreams, aiming high and soaring. The Milky Way is a universal place that can be found anywhere that is accepting of its

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