Wordsworth uses literary devices including metaphors and similes to compare the speaker to a cloud. In the poem, the speaker is, as "lonely as a cloud" (1). This describes the speaker before he finds beautiful daffodils. Later the metaphor of comparing the speaker's feelings to nature is used. Since finding the flowers, whenever the speaker feels lonely and dreary like a cloud, the thought of colorful happy flowers brightens his day.
In the poem "I wondered lonely as a cloud," the speaker finds himself lonesome, the beauty in nature, more specifically daffodils, raises his spirits. Now whenever the speaker has a forlorn feeling the memory of nature's beauty is able to make him feel better. I appreciate the contrast in feeling between a grey, dull and dreary cloud with beautiful and vibrant flowers. This provides a clear contrast of emotion.
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