I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth - (1770 - 1850) - Daffodils

See also my second version of this recital - 2nd version spoken at a faster dynamic: Artistic & truthful poem by a great English Romantic poet. Yellow is the colour of the sanguine temperament related to the lighter air element. The feeling of dance and lightness of spirit is very natural to people under the influence of such a temperament. Thus the yellow colour of the daffodils easily inspires such feelings in the observer. A field of dancing black flowers would have a very different effect on the soul. The poet points to a great truth when he says ’...but little thought what wealth the show to me had brought’. Experiences are remembered as a wellspring in later life. I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-endi