The Daffodils

by William Wordsworth
The Daffodils is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is Wordsworth's most famous work.
"The Daffodils is the perfect poem for a rainy day, and the image of dancing daffodils is a sure-
fire cure for a mild case of the blues. Plus, it’s slightly hilarious”.
This poem makes part into Romantic Period, because here we encounter: nature, meditation,
escapism, lyric, feelings/emotions, a lot of style figures, and they all are the characteristics four
this period.
In The Daffodils the poet discovered of a field of daffodils by a lake, the memory of which
pleases him and comforts him when he is lonely, bored, or restless.
The title conveys us that this poem is about nature. In poem we encounter the words:
daffodils, waves, cloud, vales, hills, trees, so the poem is about nature. The use of the pronoun “
I ” shows us the presence of the lyric poet “I wondered”,” I saw”, “I gazed”, “I lie”.
Beauty of nature is the theme of the poem. The idea of the poem is: The beauty of nature
brings tranquility of our imagination. The tone of this poem is melancholic and nostalgic.
” The four six-line stanzas of this poem follow a quatrain-couplet rhyme scheme: ABABCC.
Each line is metered in iambic tetrameter”.
In this poem we encounter a lot of stylistic devices, like: simile “lonely as a cloud”,
enumeration “vales and hills”, personifications “fluttering and dancing in the breeze”, “Tossing
their heads”, “The waves beside them danced”, epithets “Milky Way”, “sparkling waves”,
”jocund company”, “never –ending line”, “sprightly dance”, “In vacant or in pensive mood”
exaggeration “Continuous as the stars that shine/ And twinkle on the Milky Way”, “Ten thousand
saw I at a glance”, repetition” I gazed- and gazed”, alliteration “What wealth”, metaphors
“inward eye”, “my heart with pleasure fills”, antithesis “bliss of solitude”, anaphora” And
then… / And dances…”
So we realize that remembers the scene and reflected on it. “This was exactly how nature
inspired the Romantic poets: it gave them “food for thought”, something on which to reflect on
in a moment of calm and solitude”. Therefore, this poem illustrates how poetic creation took
place and the change from the past to the present tense shows that experience is not lost but can
be recalled later.