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The 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 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,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils
"The Daffodils" was written by William Wordsworth, an English poet. He is from the romantic age. The poets of that age rejected city life because it was full of corruption and abuse. Therefore, they preferred to go back to nature in order to find harmonic relations with it. " The Daffodils" seems to be about the simplicity and the beauty of nature, which contradicts the complexity and the corruption of city life.
The persona begins the poem describing his feelings, saying that he was wandering lonely as a cloud over the valleys and the hills. Suddenly, he saw a group of yellow daffodils dancing beside the lake. Their motion was continuous just like the shining stars, which twinkle in the galaxy. After that, the persona depicts the waves, which move beside the daffodils. Later, he remembers these daffodils, so this memory fills his heart with hope and pleasure. In short, these scenes made the persona feel happy and gay after being depressed and sad.
Through the lines, the shift of the persona's feelings is very clear. Firstly, he complains about the corrupted world, which lacks cooperation and harmony, so he wanders lonely and hopeless. He prefers to get away from other people as if being with them brings him nothing but more sadness and loneliness. However, seeing the golden daffodils cheered him up because they welcomed him. "A host, of golden daffodils" shows that the persona ran away from city life and took nature as a shelter to protect him from the world's corruption. The fact that the daffodils are dancing with each others proves the harmonious relationships, which exists even with other natural elements like the trees and the waves. This scene changes the persona's feelings from loneliness and sadness because of the corrupted world to company and joy because of the beauty and purity of the nature.
This poem shows the characteristics of the romantic poetry. Firstly, the romantic poetry was based on the theme of rejecting city life and going back to the Mother Nature. Actually, some critics accused these poets of being escapists because they left their lives behind their backs instead of solving them. Secondly, the romantic poets thought that they could see more and better than ordinary people did because they had deeper emotions. This was proven when the persona said, "Ten thousand saw I at a glance". Thirdly, the persona uses the primary and the secondary imagination, which was fundamental in the romantic poetry. In "The Daffodils", the primary imagination occurs when the persona imagines himself as a cloud that saw a group of dancing daffodils. Then, the secondary imagination happens when he remembers these daffodils while he was sitting on his couch and this memory, of things that never happened, fills his heart with happiness. Therefore, the secondary imagination is a sequence of the primary imagination. In addition, the poem shows another romantic characteristic, which is recollecting the ideas in tranquility. It occurs when a poet has a poetic experience, he shall calm down. Later, he can collect his ideas and feelings by his imagination when he has a vacant mood because if he writes after having the poetic experience immediately, his poem will be as recording historical events since it hasn't been colored by the poet's imagination. In "The Daffodils", the persona's poetic experience was seeing the dancing daffodils, so he wrote his poem after recollecting his ideas in tranquility because he says "when on my couch I lie / in vacant or pensive mood".
Finally, the general atmosphere of the poem begins with sadness and agony, but changes into happiness and joy. This atmosphere is emphasized through the choice of words. Firstly, the words were negative and unpleasant such as "wandered" and "lonely". They point out the sense of isolation. However, these words change to be more positive and cheerful as in "dancing", "stars that shine", "gay", …etc
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