First Impressions of I Wandered Lonely as a cloud

 First impressions of a lot of poems don’t make sense. By trying to interpret what the poet really means is difficult and sometimes takes some extra help from others opinions. The first time reading this poem an idea formed from the description and use of words. He meant for it to be from a point of view of himself and something he experienced. The first stanza he’s explaining the time where he was roaming and came across the shore where he lived in the lake-district in Grasmere. The lake side was covered in daffodils as far as he could see. He went into further detail about the way the flowers “danced” all to put a picture in the readers mind. In the next stanza Wordsworth goes on about the daffodils and how they remind him of the milky-way because the flowers were as far as he could see (never-ending) as also the milky-way is perceived. Its describing how there was so many flowers and gave a description of something the reader could think of and instead of stars in the milky-way it was daffodils on the side of a lake. The third stanza is comparing the waves of the lake that “danced” next to the waves of daffodils. In the poem it says, The waves beside them danced; but they out-did the sparkling waves in glee, when in the poem it says “they” its talking about the daffodils and how even though the lake is “sparkling” the daffodils win because they have more delight.   After that line it says “A poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company.” Wordsworth is stating that him, along with any other poet couldn’t be anything but happy when looking at this sight. He looked and looked but couldn’t understand what he had gained from this experience with a sight that he thought was so magnificent. The final stanza it is saying that now that he is gone away from the sight that he loved so much when he is lonely or “pensive” (thinking) he can think of looking at the beautiful daffodils and become satisfied.