"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" Reflection

The poem that grabs my attention is “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”. The parts I like best are the first and last stanzas. In the first stanza, I really simply imagine a cloud floating across the sky looking down upon this scene of daffodils. This gives him a perspective able to see all of the many pieces of nature that surround him, making him realize he is not so lonely. The simile he uses “I wandered lonely as a cloud” makes me lose all thought that he was a person, and I then think of only the cloud.  However, in the last stanza I am brought back to reality. When he says “…on my couch I lie…” I begin to think of a person again. As he mentions the daffodils in the last two lines, he summarizes the message of the whole poem, that joy can be found in solitude. However, technically he is not speaking of complete solitude, because really the company of these dancing daffodils and other beautiful pieces of nature surrounds him. When I finished reading this poem, I kept thinking about how interesting it was that he decided to de-personify himself into a cloud and simultaneously personify the forms of nature such as the daffodils and the waves. I also noticed that he used the words “twinkle, shine, sparkling, flash”, all similar descriptions for very different things. He uses them to describe stars, the daffodils, and waves, which to me seemed a bit strange