What Is Daffodils A Poem

This gives the reader a sense that the speaker is sad and isolated. The line, “When all at once I saw a crowd” (line 3) is the first true introduction to personification. The speaker is actually talking about daffodils. His emotion at this point is unclear. He is just observing what he is seeing. Wordsworth, then mentions the location of the daffodils, which shows how he has connected to nature. Personification continues as the daffodils began “fluttering and dancing in the breeze” (line 6). Flowers move and sway as the wind blows. The speaker chooses to personify the flowers by giving their movement meaning. The flowers are “happy”. They flutter and dance. Joy seems to surface. The lonely mood the speaker once endured has changed to being amused.

This gift of solitude helps the speaker out of his lonesome state and, whenever he feels lonely he remembers the bliss of solitude. “And then my heart fills with pleasure, And the daffodils dance.” (Lines 21-24). The speaker thinks of the daffodils, because of the solitude in his heart which this solitude gives him joy and peace. The speaker comes to realize that loneliness doesn't last forever, and with solitude he will find serenity and comfort.

“Vacillation” is a poem by William Butler Yeats that explores the source of joy and how it can only be achieved if one understands what grief is. The poem begins with the speaker using extremities to question what exactly joy is. In the second stanza of the poem Yeats introduces a mystic tree that is half burning in flames and is half abounding with foliage. In the third and fourth stanzas the persona advises the readers to gather all possible materialistic wealth, destroy it, lament over it, and then reflect upon those achievements, as genuine happiness can only originate from the grief one receives from acknowledging their achievements of the past. Through personification, ominous imagery, and the imperative tense Yeats accentuates that

The first stanza tells that the poet was wandering alone to a place whereby yellow daffodils flies over the hills and valleys with the wind flow. These daffodils grew under the trees and were close to the lake. The breeze made these daffodils easily fluttering like they were happily dancing. While in the second stanza, the poet saw these flowers shining and twinkling brightly like stars in the Milky Way. They spread over a large area along the bay margin with a huge quantity. Moreover, in the third stanza, the poet tells that both of lake and daffodils were also dancing. He shows that the daffodils looked beautiful rather than the sparkling of the lake because the daffodils have more glee. Here he shows the loneliness gradually turning into happiness because of his companions (lake and daffodils) but he could not understand what he gained from his experience. For final stanza, it tells that whenever the poet felt loneliness, he could remember the happiness when he saw the dancing daffodils. In addition, we can take a look at the use of past tense along the poem which tells about the poet’s experience and the use of present tense is used only in the last stanza since the important message of this poem is about the reflection of the poet’s

"The host of flowers appears infinite, hence Wordsworth's impression of their uncountable profusion," clearly states in line 11, "Ten thousand saw I at a glance" (Brennan 141). It takes skills to create what "the eye" cannot "perceive the bounds of" things or when they are continued to any indefinite number"—as with the daffodils—Brennan perceives that "they seem to be infinite, and they produce the same effects as if they were really so" (141).

A “woman singing.. softly” in the dusk is one of many enticing sounds used to build a sense of euphoria within the poem. This “singing woman“ and the “tinkling strings“ presented create such a peaceful scene of the speaker’s childhood that it greatly contrasts with that of the speaker’s manhood. He later applies auditory imagery once again when describing his adulthood; however, now this image isn’t so enticing. He displays a “singer bursting into clamor“ creating a ruckus, all in vain. These abrasive sounds exemplify a horrid reality that the speaker currently faces, which only spurs him to ache for the past more. Additionally, delightful visual imagery of his past is clearly shown in the “smile” of his “mother… as she sings”. Family often is revered and cherished. By having his mother, who is content nonetheless, in his memory makes his childhood that much more beautiful. He even “presses the small, poised feet of his mother“, physically touching a loved one while she smiles and sings. All of these combined elements construct an irrefutably content image. Unfortunately, this only aids in complicating his sentiments. The speaker conveys an ideal childhood; yet, he is well aware of the fact that it is eternally in the past and he has to confront the terrifying “clamor” of his

            William Wordsworth's poem "Daffodils" is about having one moment in time where true happiness is found and being able to go back to that moment and recreate the joy.  Wordsworth starts the

The authors admiration of stars is shown throughout the first half of the poem, through not only personification of the stars, but also the author's word choice when describing the stars in the sky. Using words with peaceful and positively relaxing connotations

As we read this poem and use our senses we can picture, feel, and almost touch with our fingers everything he is describing. We can see the new blooming and the gold. We can also see the gold withering away as time passed.

The poem is more or less a fantasy, a representation of human life, where you are born golden and then grow to become bitter and old, and your childishness, the,'Garden of Eden," mentioned in the poem, sinks into nothing as you become an adult. However, this song could not be a fantasy, and instead be a real life representation of the transition from spring and summer into fall and winter.

The poem is structured in such a way that at first we are told about how his poetry is unrewarded in the modern world “sullen art”. The poet then goes on to tell us how he only gets inspiration from the moon while the lovers sleep unaware of their impact on the poets work “when only the moon rages and the lovers lie abed”(3-4). He then constructs this notion that he is all alone and nobody seems to appreciate the long hours that he puts into his work Ï labour by singing light not for ambition or bread”(6-7). There is then a reference to modern society and how poets nowadays are consumed by fame and fortune “or the strut and trade charms on the ivory stages” (8-9). They are missing the beauty and magic that poetry gives to the world. The poet dismisses how poets of the modern world are arrogant and pretentious, they only write something if they will benefit from

In the beginning of each stanza, the poem starts with a description of something beautiful and full of life. The mood in the first two lines of each stanza is full of life and joy. Conflictingly, the last two lines of each stanza have a mood of sadness at the loss of the beauty that had previously been described. The final mood of the poem is addressed in the last stanza when Herbert writes of the virtuous soul that lives when the rest of the world turns to nothing. This is a picture of hope, which is the lasting mood of the

It proposes a lot of ideas in a serious way. The Tone is very somber and thought-provoking. As from before, it proposes a lot of tones and ideas that aren't exactly cheery. Overall it is a very serious and thought-provoking poem in both it's tone and mood.

In the poem ‘Thistles’, Ted Hughes describes the life cycle of the thistles, and how difficult is to rid them for good. The poem does not have a rhyming pattern but uses much alliteration, and conveys a negative mood, one that is aggressive and violent. In the second poem, ‘Daffodils’, it is the contrary, embracing the speaker with glee and happy thoughts. In such a joyful company of flowers, a poet could do nothing but be happy. The main difference between these two poems is the sense of mood, one poem being the contrary of the other.

The idea of the signified and the signifier is important when discussing the textual changes between the original and revised versions of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (it is unexpected Wordsworth would revise his texts as he was at the forefront of the idea that “poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” and that “it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity” William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 1800. However, from a structuralist perspective, we should forget about the poet when analysing his work and focus mainly on the impact of the revisions made to his poetry). The addition of the second stanza to the revised version balances the poem in my opinion and gives it a certain fluidity, making it easier to read and interpret as well as creating the iambic tetrameter which implements a heartbeat-like sound throughout the poem. The original version of the poem (written c. 1807) is more factual and almost colder. It presents the daffodils in a blunt way which creates a sense of rawness in the poem, as if it is unfinished which is perhaps due to the fact that, according to Zachary Leader, “periodic and deliberated revisions are somehow less likely to be creative than those that come in a burst: poetic power and spontaneity or imagination go hand in hand”