I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud By John Muir Summary

As John Muir said, ”I found beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream, growing not in the ground but on a bed of yellow mosses in which its small white bulb had found a soft nest and from which its one leaf and one flower sprung.” Muir lets us know how beautiful that moment was; he exclaims how everything ugly and painful around the flower didn't really seem to matter when he saw the a flower named calypso. A famous poet named William Wordsworth also shows his encounter with a flower. Unlike Muir’s encounter, it was with several flowers. Everything around Wordsworth was indeed beautiful but he did not feel very pleasant. He felt lonely, but the flowers seemed to lighten him up. John Muir’s story “Calypso Borealis” and William Wordsworth’s poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” expressed their relationship with nature by telling readers about their encounter with the marvelous flower/s: Although Muir saw one single calypso flowers, and Wordsworth saw a whole field full of daffodils.

John Muir has a very strong relationship with nature as said in his story named The Calypso Borealis. John Muir states in the fifth paragraph that he does not know how long he spent next the flower.In the second

paragraph, Muir explains that by saying,”I had been fording streams more and more difficult to cross and wading bogs and swamps that seemed more and more extensive and more difficult to force one's way through. Entering one of these great Tamarac and arborvitae swamps one morning, holding a general though very crooked course by compass, struggling through tangled drooping branches and over and under broad heaps of fallen trees, I began to fear that I would not be able to reach dry ground before dark, and therefore, would have to pass the night in the swamp and began, faint and hungry.” Although it might have seemed like a very hard time, in the third paragraph he explains how he cried of joy when he got to see the calypso. Also, John Muir states how whenever he is down he just thinks of the flowers quite a lot. We know this because when Muir says,”This Calypso meeting happened some forty-five years ago, and it was more memorable and impressive than any of my meetings with human beings” he concludes that the flower was a really huge impact on his life.
Wordsworth had a very reliable life on plants; especially one type of plant.

Wordsworth said in his poem Wandered Lonely like a Cloud that he was lonely when he was walking and found the daffodils dancing very joyfully with the wind. We know this when his poem said,”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.” Although he was feeling very lonely, The flowers seemed to bring joy to him. Muir expresses this when he says,“For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude; and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the

daffodils.”
These authors talk quite passionately about their encounter with these beautiful flowers. By the way they talk about the flowers, you can tell that nature has a really big impact in their lives. When they are down they always remember the flowers to bring joy into their moments of grief. With Muir, he went through a lot of struggles just to see the remaining flower; but Wordsworth was already lonely but the flowers seemed to make him think about how happy he should be. Whenever you are feeling down visit a field of flowers and see how it makes you feel. Maybe you can become a famous naturalist.