Suffering Ddiils In William Wordsworth's Daffodils By Wordsworth

The poet orders his listener to behold a “solitary Highland lass” reaping and singing by herself in a field. He says that anyone passing by should either stop here, or “gently pass” so as not to disturb her. As she “cuts and binds the grain” she “sings a melancholy strain,” and the valley overflows with the beautiful, sad sound. The speaker says that the sound is more welcome than any chant of the nightingale to weary travelers in the desert, and that the cuckoo-bird in spring never sang with a voice so thrilling. Impatient, the poet asks, “Will no one tell me what she sings?” He speculates that her song might be about “old, unhappy, far-off things, / And battles long ago,” or that it might be humbler, a simple song about “matter of today.” Whatever she sings about, he says, he listened “motionless and still,” and as he traveled up the

John Muir and William Wordsworth are great examples of this theory. Throughout their stories, both men give great insight to how the harmony of nature impacts their lives in a way that can make them forget about all the sorrow and depression they have following behind them; Wordsworth and Muir’s stories include syntax and diction to verbalize their passionate relationship towards nature. William Wordsworth’s poem, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” excellently shows how the power of beauty can changes one's once depressed, sad day into joy and blissfulness. In Wordsworth's story, he exploits his experience of how nature changed his mood of depression and sorrow to grateful and glee when he stumbles across a bed of beautiful golden daffodils dancing in the breeze. Wordsworth writes: “A poet could not be but gay, in such a jocund company” (stanza 3). In this passage, Wordsworth shows his change of heart when in the presence of something so beautiful and alluring. Wordsworth also shows how nature impacts his mood from the quote: “They flash upon the inward eye, and my heart with pleasure fills” (stanza 4). In this final quote, Wordsworth explains that even when he is apart from the beautiful golden daffodils, it is the memory that keeps his spirits alive. While Wordsworth's experience with nature

In concord to this, the Norton Anthology of English Literature characterises this poem as an inauguration of “[Wordsworth's] “myth of nature”: his presentation of the “growth” of his mind to maturity, a process unfolding through the interaction between the inner world of the mind and the shaping force of external nature” (Willliam Wordsworth 1770-1850, 271).” It is no wonder John Keats describes Wordsworth's poetry as “excessively self-centred” (“Egotistical Sublime”), thereby strengthening the argument of Wordsworth's focus on the individual.

Henry David Thoreau once said, “It 's not what you look at that matters, it 's what you see.” William Wordsworth, the author of the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, and John Muir, author of the essay The Calypso Borealis, have proved this in their works by looking at nature and portraying it differently but beautifully in each piece. They have been able to express their relationships with nature differently through choices about format, such as if a rhyme scheme will be used; their word choice, like choosing to give something a specific name; as well as through literary devices used, including tone, mood, and irony, but, even though they made many different choices, their works are both able to make nature seem beautiful and mysterious.

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth, a poem that discloses the relationship between nature and human beings: how nature can affect one’s emotion and behavior with its motion and sound. The words the author adopted in this poem are interconnected and related to each other. They are simple yet profound, letting us understand how much William Wordsworth related his works to nature and the universe. It also explained to us why William Wordsworth is one of the greatest and the most influential English romantic poets in history. As Robert DiYanni says in his book, “with much of Wordsworth’s poetry, this lyric reflects his deep love of nature, his vision of a unified

Wordsworth says that, wandering like a cloud floating above the hill and valleys, he encountered a field of daffodils beside a lake, in the poem. “I wandered lonely as a cloud” A poet could not help but to be happy in such a joyful company of flowers. William stared and watched but did not realize what wealth the scene would bring him. Whenever he feels “vacant” or “pensive” the picture would flash upon “that inward eye / That is the bliss of solitude. : and his heart fills with pleasure, “and dances with the daffodils.” (Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud). Wordsworth also created songs of innocence such as “Daffodils Song”. The Romantic poets, predominantly Wordsworth and Blake were spellbound by the natural world. The author used pastoral landscapes to evoke joy, to create peaceful scenes that were only darkened by the threat of urbanization and the Industrial Revolution. (William Wordsworth: Artistic Reaction to the Industrial Revolution, Fed 14, 2000)

“I wandered lonely as a cloud” is a poem written by William Wordsworth which is known as daffodils. It was published in 1815 with a new revision after realizing there were words that needed to be changed in Poet in Two Volumes edition (Abishek, 2013). This poem is one of the examples of romantic era. I love this poem because the content is related to nature. It is true with the statement from Xiaolin Huang, Feifei Pei, and Changle Fu (2014) that William Wordsworth often called himself as “A Worshiper of Nature” so everyone called him as a poet of nature. He thought that nature could illuminate the kind-heartedness and universal brotherhood of human being, and only present in harmony with the nature where human could get the truly happiness.

The stanza of Wordsworth's poem, “And then my heart fills with pleasure, and dances with the daffodils.” compares with Muir’s paragraph, “It seems wonderful that so frail and lovely a plant has such power over human hearts.” that they especially, take a liking to flowers and find peace within them. The authors are troubled by either emotions or a force working against them. Wordsworth’s dreary poem, “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” evokes deep emotions and creates dreariness within a series of, dreaminess scenes as he wanders lonely, but seeing the daffodils reawakens a sense of nostalgia within him, While, Muir writes in his essay, “Calypso Borealis” of travelling and facing difficulties of being unable to travel across a swamp, but once he comes across the beautiful Calypso flower he can forgive the forces that were working against him. The “Calypso Borealis” and “I Wandered As Lonely As A Cloud” are both powerful pieces that encourage others to embrace what nature has to offer. “The waves beside them danced; but they, outdid the sparkling waves in glee: a poet could not be gay“ Wordsworth wrote in his poem that express surely, nobody that basked in the sun and witness the glory that withholds nature could stay

The poet experiences the sense of loneliness deep within himself and writes about the experience. The feelings of solitude have deeply planted roots including both factors of time and personal experiences. It also had a significant impact on the poetic theory of Wordsworth. As a poet always against tradition, Wordsworth fearlessly abandons all the shallowness of extreme classism, and chooses to describe plain and mediocre things, which urges people to return to the roots of genuine life, and also enlightens them through nature and its subliminal

At first read, Blake and Rossetti’s fascination with the unity of conflicting emotion and their tendency to describe human experiences in contradictory terms might be perplexing. However, there is a reason behind what seems to be madness in the poetry of these writers. The poetry of Blake and Rossetti leads itself to the assertion that the human experience is teeming with both joy and agony. Whether someone lives their life in a state of joy or woe does not depend on whether their experience is positive or negative, because the human experience is both. Rather, someone’s happiness or sadness through their life depends on whether they choose to orient their focus to the happiness and joy that exists in the universe or the negative pain that is just as abundant. Though happiness and sadness take many different forms in the poetry, in each form, they are as abundant as they are co-dependent.

Through his poem, “The World Is Too Much with Us,” William Wordsworth exemplifies the major ideals of romanticism through his passionate criticism of society’s increasing materialism. Wordsworth rebels against the materialistic notions of society catalyzed by the increasing industrialization of the Western world, arguing that a society solely concentrating on worldly possessions and goods loses sight of the primordial beauty and importance of the natural world. Furthermore, he specifically emphasizes the romantic tenants of nature being alive and rebelling against society through the personification of nature and his criticism of society’s materialism. Moreover, by addressing these major tenants of romanticism, Wordsworth simultaneously rejects

with no name. His poem allows the readers to be open mind. This specific imagery

Personifying another facet of nature, Wordsworth partners the daffodils in their dance, "The waves beside them danced, but they / Outdid the sparkling waves in glee" (13-14). The lines also work to strengthen

org/wp-content/death_authorbarthes.pdf Web. (Accessed: 18 November 2015) the death of the author is the birth of the reader, therefore meaning that because structuralism detaches Wordsworth from the poem (which is written in the first person narrative), the reader has an opportunity to engage with the poem without being affected by Wordsworth’s own opinions on it. It would seem this gives the reader the best chance to appreciate and understand the beauty of the daffodils without be swayed by the poet’s personal experience. The daffodils are portrayed in an idyllic, almost over-exaggerated light, are called “golden” and are personified the flowers so they are “fluttering and dancing in the breeze” William Wordsworth, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, Poems (1815) Cited in Harvey Sucksmith, “Orchestra and the Golden Flower: A Critical Interpretation of the Two Versions of Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, The Yearbook of English Studies vol. 4 (1974), pg. 149-158. By stripping the poet from the poem the reader takes the place of the “I”, meaning the reader forms their own unique images and ideas of what the poem means on a personal level. Barthes also references the fact we can contextualise the writing style of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by comparing it to another text, for example Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journal. The journal, kept for Dorothy’s personal use, is blunt and

As previously stated, structuralism is a theory in which all elements of human culture are thought to be part of a system of signs. Structuralists are concerned with issues such as form and genre. The reason why I chose to apply a structuralist perspective upon William Wordsworth’s poem is due to the fact that that it can be easily interacted with because it is positioned in the lyrical genre. The rhyming scheme is in the form ABABCC. The rhyming couplet evident at the end of each stanza creates an unpretentious break caused by the addition of a new stanza. As a result, the final line of teach stanza contains an additional sense of emphasis. The final line of the poem mentions “the show” and conveys images of dancing daffodils, a long-lasting impression discussed by Wordsworth. The meter of this poem is an iambic tetrameter. The meter creates a rhythm with a musical, song like quality, to which the daffodils may dance. Wordsworth also employs consonance and alliteration to create the sense of rhythm. The form of a poem is of utmost importance to structuralist critics. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is twenty four lines long and it features four stanzas with six lines each. In each individual stanza there is a perceptible pattern – the first line rhymes with the third line and the second line rhymes with the fourth line. The stanzas finish with the inclusion of a rhyming couplet. By concentrating the first three stanzas on the lake experience and the final on the memory of that experience, Wordsworth amalgamates the content of the poem. It is interesting to note that despite the obvious fact that “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is built as a sonnet although it is a lyrical poem. Wordsworth employs figurative language such as comparisons, personification, epithets and metaphors so as to express his feelings to the reader. As a sub-genre, “I Wandered Lonely as