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

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 s