Understanding ideas of belonging in Wordsworth's 'I wandered lonely as a cloud'

Wordsworth was a leading Romantic poet who revered ideas of nature and emotion. Throughout the poem, Wordsworth implies that nature brings joy and happiness to the speaker’s previous “lonely” life. Potentially, we might see Wordsworth as suggesting that humanity can find a sense of belonging in nature. However, we might also interpret Wordsworth as connecting nature to the Romantic sublime in the poem. This connection of nature to the Romantic sublime might undermine our understanding of belonging.