The cheerful companionship of the flowers lifted his spirits. They seemed to be in a frenzy of delight. It seemed as though the sparkling gleeful waves of the lake with the breeze drawing patterns on them were dancing in tandem with these flowers but their gleeful dance was in no way comparable to the euphoric and gaiety of the daffodils that The joy that filled the narrator’s soul seemed to find expression in the way he perceived the swaying movement of the flowers. At a single glance, he could see a myriad of daffodils “tossing their heads in sprightly dance” in the breeze, as if they were rejoicing in ecstasy. This poetic exaggeration suggests that never before had he sighted so many daffodils all at once. He uses a hyperbole while describing the number of flowers that he saw, accounting it as “ten thousand”. It could also imply the undying everglow that these flowers gave the narrator. The flowers seemed to border “the margin of the bay” as far as he could see. To him this scene seemed like a breath of fresh air in which his soul, a long-cramped scroll, seemed to flutter.Īkin to innumerable shining golden stars that are studded in the Milky Way-the golden daffodils that were as ethereal as the stars.
It was on one such gloomy afternoon that he was strolling near a lake in Grasmere in England with his sister, Dorothy, when they chanced upon some daffodils close to a waterside. On an autobiographical note, the loneliness that the poet talks about was a result of his brother’s death. Now the poet’s mind seems to soar higher and higher like a cloud as he looks at the daffodils. The narrator seems to glide into a Utopian world, where these daffodils seem to be “fluttering and dancing” in the breeze (personification). The use of the word “golden” is significant as it bestows a sense richness to a wild flower. The discomfort that he feels in the human multitude (which in turn, leads to his solitude) is curiously absent when he is in the company of the infinities of nature. His depiction of the daffodils as “a crowd” is contrary to his previous portrayal of solitude. It is after this that the poem shifts to a euphoric mood as he comes across The narrator much like a lonesome cloud that aimlessly drifts “high o’er vales and hills”, meanders down the mountains in the Lake District of England. Which sets in the mood of seclusion that trails through the entire poem. This lyrical poem starts with the melancholic diction of With each of the lines of the four six-line stanzas metered in an iambic tetrameter, the poem follows a quatrain-couplet style with the rhyming scheme ababcc. And what inspires mankind more than nature? Not only is it a visual treat, but also a source of joy to the mind and the soul. It shows that a poet is not a man in an ivory tower but a man among men, writing about all that interests and inspires mankind.
Romanticism talks about going back to nature as only nature has the narrative power to save people from the mechanical humdrum of city life. Daffodils, which is a representative of Romanticism in English Literature, is one that can be called a “real poem”, which is “a spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings arising from emotions recollected in tranquility.
Here the poet dips his mysticism, minimalism and spontaneity in his imagination, with Nature herself acting as the inspiration. This is the first book in the new Lobster Press series, “Read Me a Poem,” in which classic poetry is given a contemporary artistic twist.Ī eulogy to the restorative powers of Nature, Daffodils is perhaps the simplest and yet most celebrated lyric poem of the entire Wordsworth canon. Children will relate to the basic emotions (sadness, loneliness, happiness) of the robots, and can be encouraged to think about what cheers them up when they are sad, and to talk about how nature makes them feel. Bold illustrations and easy-to-read text lend themselves to lap-reading and group story time. In an effort to have children understand the basic themes of the poem, easily recognizable characters such as robots and animated flowers are used to act out the poetic verse. They will cheer little Robot for sharing the power of nature with the others, bringing happiness to the once dismal factory. Children will observe the contrast between the dreary, metallic robot world, and the lively, colorful world of the daffodils and nature. After dancing with them, his spirit is filled with joy. One day while sadly walking by himself, he follows a bird over a hill, where he finds a field of daffodils. These beautiful images create a parallel story accessible to children: Lonely little Robot doesn't have much to be happy about, working all day in the factory. Introduce young children to the timeless poetry of William Wordsworth, whose traditional verse is accompanied by vivid oil paintings inspired by the poem's original themes.
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