A Close Reading of William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" 

Thank you for your kind words!

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Thanks, Giancarla. This video is part of a longer series that looks at the poem from multiple angles. In fact, I do touch on Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads elsewhere: natureofwriting.com/courses/writing-about-literature/lessons/historical-context/ Hope that helps!

Thanks, Alfredo. Your kind words are much appreciated!

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It's a great question, and I suspect the answer is both!

My literary criticism university professor answered a similar question on this topic, he actually said the shorter a piece of work(poem for example) the more the author or writer put so much thought into choosing what literary devices and techniques to use.

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Absolutely. As I create more videos on English literature I'll add them here: natureofwriting.com/courses/english-literature/

Good point, although isolation does tend to make us lonely, so it's really about the interaction between these terms. Wordsworth is trying to make the surprising claim that when is isolated in nature he doesn't have to feel lonely because he is surrounded by a crowd of daffodils.

Yes, "host" is another word for "crowd." Glad you enjoyed the video.

Hi Paul, good question about Marxist analysis. I'm not a Marxist at all, and yet I find some of Marx's ideas interesting and useful. In literary studies, a Marxist analysis simply means an attempt to relate a text to the broader social and economic conditions of the time. In Wordsworth's case, for example, that might mean thinking about how Romantic poets reacted to the industrial revolution. It does not mean that you have to start a revolution. Hope that helps!

Greetings and thank you for your reply. I adore English literature even though I had also to endure lectures and tutorials about jackals prattling on about deconstruction and post modernism (Derrida...and the prince of jackals, Foucault as well as others) I remember the day Derrida died in 2004 and going to bed overjoyed and musing to myself, ''Good riddance; that's one less depraved animal in the world.'' The moral refuge of virtue-signaling can, to some extent, explain they ''why'' of Marxist criticism. (Oh, I did study Wordsworth's ''Michael" ...a perfect example of the Romantic poet up against the evils of the industrial revolution, however, there was no post-mod/ Marxist slant because the particular lecturer I enjoyed loathed and abominated Marxism( a rare bird in Australian tertiary education---humanities) Cheers and kind regards!

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@@horationelson57 You were pleased to see another human being die?

@@bobpolo2964 Yes, I was thrilled with Derrida's departure as I will be thrilled again when the likes of Noam Chomsky, Barack Inane Obummer & Harridan Hillary shuffle off collectively.