There is much power in this poem in the use of the simile, a comparison between two unlike things using the word as. In this poem Wordsworth immediately immerses himself into Nature with the first line that employs a simile: "I wandered lonely as a cloud/That floats on high o 'er vales and hills." Further, the following stanza begins with another simile: "Continuous as the stars that shine/And twinkle on the milky way." The daffodils are personified as they are referred to as "a crowd,/A host." In similar fashion, the stars "toss their heads in sprightly dance." Then, "the waves beside them danced" also. The poet finds himself in "such a jocund company" and the "sparkling waves are in glee" (jocund and glee are emotional states). Repetition is used in the stanza "I gazed and gazed..." /g/; "What wealth" /w/. "That inward eye" is a metaphor for the memory (this is an implied comparison since memory is not mentioned).Paralellism is used in, "Beside the lake, beneath the trees" (the two phrases are constructed similarly)Repetition is also used in, "I gazed--and gazed" Also, many of the ideas of the first stanza are repeated …show more content…
Wordsworth communicates precisely by stressing the incommunicable nature of what he wishes to be present (O’Neill, 3). Wordsworth communicates precisely by stressing the incommunicable nature of what he wishes to be present (O’Neill, 3). A loving perception of a profound vent opens them- and us who read- to the intensity of full experience rather than the “half experience” Wordsworth decries. In order to develop the sensibility in his readers Wordsworth seems to go on to an uncompromising extreme of naivete-risking, even courting, the ridicule bred by the disdain sophistication can provoke- so that he may expose the essence underneath the ridicule. Heims writes that, “What may cause difficulty for readers is that Wordsworth is uncompromising” (Heims, 1). The purpose of poetry, Wordsworth is arguing, is to cultivate human sympathy by exciting the human mind (Heims, 1). Repeatedly Wordsworth attempts to show that simplicity and profoundity do not exclude each other. Wordsworth is trying to reeducate his readers as readers and people (Heims,