![]() ![]() The poet, in this stanza (3) tells that besides the energetic daffodils, the waves of the lake were dancing as well due to the effect of the blowing wind/light breeze. Actually, there was movement in the flowers due to the blow of a light breeze. The poet felt that they were tossing their heads while dancing enthusiastically. He wants to say that he never saw so many daffodils in one sight (or at once). The poet uses the hyperbole “ten thousand I saw at a glance” for showing the large quantity of the flowers. It means the daffodils were visible as far as his eyes could see alongside the shoreline of the bay. Since the field of those flowers covered a big area of the land, so William Wordsworth makes use of the expression “never-ending line”. In the second stanza, the poet says that to him the heart-touching scene of daffodils that were spread in the wide-area appeared like those stars who shine as well as a twinkle in the galaxy. In fact, the wind was blowing at that place, so it was moving/shaking those flowers. It seems to the poet that they were fluttering as well as dancing. They were situated beside the lake as well as under the trees. Soon he caught a fascinating sight of golden daffodils. Wordsworth says that once upon a time when he was alone and aimlessly walking in the style of “a cloud that floats” over hills as well as valleys. That floats on high o'er vales and hills,Īnd dances with the daffodils. The daffodils in this poem are a symbol of nature’s beauty and the rebirth of the land in springtime.Daffodils Poem I wandered lonely as a cloud Imagination and nature are essential to human happiness and content. Because the speaker has such a strong imagination, they can extend their experience into our minds (the readers). By personifying the daffodils with human qualities sadly makes them more important to humans, if we saw plants and animals that way we would not destroy them because in doing so we would be destroying ourselves. The speaker shows with his inward eye (imagination) positive effects can occur, he is no longer in a vacant or pensive mood and encourages the reader to use their imagination. pensive mood.” The reader is being taken on the journey of the speaker’s memory and asked to use their imagination. The speaker’s inward eye is a symbol for or metaphor for their imagination, which they bring up whenever they are in a “vacant or. The reader then starts to notice life in everything else and in doing so this makes them feel more alive. The personification of the daffodils throughout the poem are used imaginatively, they are said to be “dancing” but they are just being blown by the wind but the activity of dancing seems to evoke a pleasant feeling, it is like the daffodils are alive, living and vivid in the reader’s mind/imagination. ![]() ![]() The speaker looks back on an experience and uses his imagination to turn it into something vivid and different. If it weren’t for the speaker’s imagination and ability to use poetic techniques to create a picture for others to read, there would be no poem. ![]() The whole poem is a recital of the speaker’s memory and requires the reader to have an imagination to truly visualise the speaker’s memory within their mind. The form of poetry is lyrical and the rhyme scheme is ABABCC in each stanza throughout the poem and it is spoken in the first person through the speaker recalling their memories of nature. In today’s age, this poem is so important because we do not have an active engagement or appreciation for nature, we destroy it and in doing so we are destroying our happiness and replacing it with material possessions. The poem is trying to convince the reader of the positive effects of having an active engagement with nature. Without nature we all of humanity would be lonely, we would be like the cloud this is why the poem has its name. The cloud is a metaphor for the speaker and in using this metaphor it represents that humanity can be one with nature. The speaker appears to be lonely at the beginning of the poem but the presence and sight of the daffodils become ingrained in the speaker’s vivid memories. The speaker uses beautiful natural imagery to encourage the reader to appreciate the beauty of nature and what it has to offer. In the poem, humanity is a part of nature and humans having a strong bond with nature creates real and not synthetic human happiness, for example, mobile devices. The speaker is the symbol for humanity and the daffodils are the symbol of nature. The themes of this poem are nature and humanity, memory and imagination. Throughout this poem, the speaker is admiring the natural world and its beauty. The concept of this poem is about the speaker’s joy for the beauty of daffodils and what they mean to him and mankind’s relationship to the natural world. ![]()
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