Daffodils by William Wordsworth
Throughout Words Worth's works, we find that nature provides the ultimate great influence on the human mind, and of course flowers are part of this nature who takes huge part of Words Worth's poems, all manifestations of nature world from the highest mountain to the simplest flower. The central idea of the daffodils is embodied in a sight of magnificent flowers fills the poet with eternal joy. The ordinary flowers ingrain in his receptive mind, and deepest thoughts .The flowers provide food for his future meditation. This sight of the beautiful flowers flashed upon his mental and then he draws the same pleasure as that he receives at their actual life. (Khandelwal p.242: 1992)
''I wondered lonely as a cloud '' is the perfect poem for the rainy day , and the image of dancing daffodils is sure-fire cure for a mild case of blues. After looking at the title, the reader may expect the poem to be about somebody who is alone moving without definite direction, this is about a walk the poet takes in the country and his pleasant feeling he has in front of a field of flowers as if he is in a magical place or as if he is in a dream so, this flower is moved by breeze .The flowers seem full of energy, and power so that they would remember a dance and they are so many that they recall a line that never end . It is a never ending story in the eye of eternity. The waves of the lake beside daffodils draw a wonderful image but they are not as nice as the daffodils are.
The image of flowers in this poem refer to happiness , so daffodils here represents happiness. Daffodils is a poem that just makes you feel good, and happy about life. It says that even when you are by yourself and lonely and missing your people you can use your imagination to create your own world.
The speaker of this poem makes a heaven out of a windy day and a bunch of flowers. His happiness doesn't last forever. He is not that unrealistic but flowers give him a little boots of joy whenever he needs it.
William Words Worth's '' Daffodils'' is lyric poem concentrating on the poet response to the beauty of nature. This poem presents the deep feelings and emotions of the poet rather than telling a story or presenting a witty observation. He draws a very compassionate image which embedded in:
'' When all at once I saw a crowd
A host, of golden daffodils;"
Comparison of daffodils to a crowd people, as well as:
'' Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze ''
Another image of comparison of daffodils to dancing human. The daffodils is one of the most wonderful poems of Wordsworth's shorter poems. (khandelwal p.242,243: 1992)
Furthermore, the speaker goes into more details about the daffodils. They reminded him of Milky Way, because there were a lot of flowers pocked together that they seemed to be never-ending. the poet guesses that there were ten thousand daffodils which were '' tossing their heads in sprightly dance'' .another image the poet shows is the comparison between the waves of the lake and the waves of daffodils , and decides that even though the lake is sparkling the daffodils win because they have more glee .Wordsworth illustrates his own idea that poetry takes its own origin in emotion recollected in tranquility .Loneliness of the writer is a felicity , for it provides food for his imagination , so the poet dances with the flowers in his mind , for his loneliness allows him
uninterrupted freedom (Khandelwal , p.245: 1992)
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"I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD"
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.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay: 10
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood, 20
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
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