A Spiritual Reality

How do you feel when you see flowers growing on the roadside?  To the author, William Wordsworth, in his immortal lyric poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, flowers and all of nature’s richness is a spiritual reality, bearing witness to the beauty and goodness of God.  The poem expresses the writer’s personal feelings and emotions.

The poet used an apt comparison of the speaker to a lonely cloud willing to be carried anywhere without direction, just floating away anywhere, wherever. The simile used is a kind where the quality is inferred, comparing a person to a cloud, without naming the quality similar to the compared objects. 

Although the stanzas were written in six lines, the poem follows a rhyme of four verses with each stanza consisting of two successive lines of verse; usually rhymed having four metrical feet.

While in his lonely mood, the speaker in the poem sees a crowd. A crowd of flowers, personified as human beings, golden daffodils all over the lake, under the trees flapping up and down as if dancing in the cooled wind and snatches away the solitary mood of the speaker in the poem, and  joyfully found himself not all alone but at peace in the company of  God’s other beautiful creations.  What an “identity-switching technique” with its simple plot about nature, memory and musical eloquence!        

While revisiting the banks of the Wye, “Tintern Abbey” was written in l798 and like Wordsworth’s other famous poems, its theme is focused on the beauty of nature and memory.  

The poem was written in blank verse; unrhymed verses having five metrical feet like a piece of prose, flowing, very natural and read easily. Similar to “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, “Tintern Abbey” is a monologue where the speaker talks to himself, addressing others at times. 

Flushing in the scene in the idea of an abbey is a faint breed of religious thought although the actual form of the structure is not contained in the poem. Wordsworth uses romanticism by describing the pleasure brought by nature. This poem is all about past memories as he tries to bring back those lost memories.

In the few lines of the poem, the poet experiences emotional pain in reminiscing his childhood, his communion with nature.  In his last paragraph, Wordsworth wished that her sister Dorothy survived his death to share and continue his memories so that his love for nature will live on.  But one thing is definite that Wordsworth will be remembered for his poems and his memories will live on.

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