Daffodils by William Wordsworth

Daffodils
By William Wordsworth

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:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but 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,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

Daffodils is a poem, written by William Wordsworth in 1804. It is published in 1815 in ‘Collected Poem’. William Wordsworthh was born 0n April 7th 1770 in Cockermout, England and he was died when he was eighty. He is the famous poets in romantic era. His other works beside daffodils are Lyrical Ballads, With a few other poems (1789), Poems, in Two Volumes (1807).
Daffodils poem has 4 stanzas. Its title taken from the name of the flower “daffodil”. From the name , we can imagine what is the contain of the poem, it’s kind a beautiness as a representation of flower. This poem is a descriptive poem because of the title and the contains.
The title “Daffodils” is a simple word that reminds us about spring season, when the field is full of daffodils. Daffodils are yellow flowers, having an amazing shape and beautiful fragrance. A bunch of daffodils symbolize the joys and happiness of life.
William Wordsworth wrote Daffodils while he was walking along with his sister Dorothy near Ullswater Lake in England . he was really impressed with the beautiness of Daffodils.
The Daffodils has a rhyming ABAB ( A – cloud and crowd ; B – hills and daffodils ) and ending with a rhyming CC ( C trees and breeze ). The rhymings are repeated in every stanza, but with different words.
There are some figures of speech, first of all we can see on the first line “ I wander’d lonely as a cloud’. It makes personification and simile. Personification is A figure of speech (generally considered a type of metaphor) in which an inanimate object or abstraction is given human qualities or abilities. Simile is a figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.” William Wordsworth made himself with the word “I” to be a cloud ( simile) floating in the sky. When he said in the second line “I” ( poet as a cloud) look down at the valleys and mountains and appreciate the daffodils; it’s the personification. The line “Ten thousand saw I at a glance” is a hyperbole. It’s an exaggeration of a word ‘ten thousand’ seemed too much. There is also an alliteration , alliteration is the repetition os similar sounds, example in the words high and hills.
The poem draws images of lakes, fields, trees, stars in Ullswater. From the poem seems that Wordsworth praises the daffodils, comparing them to the Milky Way galaxy – second stanza, their dance – third stanza and in the closing stanza, dreams to join the daffodils in their dance.
The Daffodils poem uses descriptive language within all the stanzas. The words are simple and melodious. Daffodils are just like representation of happiness of nature.