"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" or as many would call “Daffodils” is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is Wordsworth's most famous work. The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802, in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils. Written probably between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth's own account), it was first published in 1807 in “Poems in Two Volumes”, and a revised version was published in 1815. In a poll conducted in 1995 by the BBC Radio for Bookworm programme to determine the nation's favourite poems, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” came fifth. Often anthologised, the poem is commonly seen as a classic of English Romantic poetry, although “Poems in Two Volumes”, in which it first appeared, was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries. Wordsworth revised the poem in 1815. He replaced "dancing" with "golden"; "along" with "beside"; and "ten thousand" with "fluttering and". He then added a stanza between the first and second, and changed "laughing" to
"jocund". The last stanza was left untouched. The poem is presented and taught in many schools in both the English-speaking world the non-English-Speaking world. It is also frequently used as a part of the Junior Certificate English Course in many countries like Ireland as part of the Poetry Section. This course main objectives will be, therefore, training the students to read Wordsworth's the “Daffodils” in a poetic tone, understanding it and interpreting it individually, analysing it on both levels: the form and content and finally
drawing it according to the images that may be inspired by the poem's imagery.