Fair daffodils, we weep to see

You haste away so soon;

As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain’d his noon.
Stay, stay
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the evensong;
And, having pray’d together, we
Will go with you along.

We have short time to stay, as you,

We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away
Like to the summer’s rain;
Or as the pearls of morning’s dew,
Ne’er to be found again.

A constant theme of the songs written by Robert Herrick is

 the short-lived nature of life, the fleeting passage of time.

 like the flowers we humans have a very short life in this world.
 beauty is not going to stay forever.

. We find a note of melancholy/sadness in his poem which arises out of the realization that
beauty is not going to stay forever.
In his poem ‘To Daffodils’, the poet Robert Herrick begins by saying that we grieve to see the
beautiful daffodils being wasted away very quickly.
The duration of their gloom is so short that it seems even the rising sun still hasn’t reached the
noon-time.
Thus, in the very beginning the poet has struck a note of mourning at the fast dying of daffodils.
The poet then addresses the daffodils and asks them to stay until the clay ends with the evening
prayer.
After praying together he says that they will also accompany the daffodils. This is so because
like flowers men too have a very transient life and even the youth is also very short-lived.

“We have short time to stay, as you,

We have as short a spring.”
The poet symbolically refers to the youth as spring in these lines.
He equates/compares human life with the life of daffodils. Further he says that both of them
grow very fast to be destroyed later.
Just like the short duration of the flowers, men too die away soon.
 ‫‪Their life is as short as the rain of the summer season, which comes for a very short time; and‬‬
‫‪the dew-drops in the morning, which vanish away and never return again.‬‬

‫‪Thus, the poet after comparing the flowers to humans, later turns to the objects of nature – he‬‬
‫‪has compared the life of daffodils with summer rain, dew drops.‬‬

‫‪The central idea presented by the poet in this poem is that like the flowers we humans have a‬‬
‫‪very short life in this world. The poet laments that we too life all other beautiful things soon slip‬‬
‫‪into the shadow and silence of grave. A sad and thoughtful mood surrounds the poem.‬‬

‫وهناك موضوع دائم من األغاني من تأليف روبرت هيريك هي طبيعة قصيرة األجل من الحياة‪ ،‬ومرور عابرة من الزمن‪ .‬نجد علما‬
‫‪.‬حزن ‪ /‬الحزن في قصيدته التي تنشأ عن إدراك أن الجمال لن تبقى إلى األبد‬
‫في قصيدته 'لأزهار النرجس البري "‪ ،‬الشاعر روبرت هيريك يبدأ بالقول إننا نحزن لرؤية تهدر على النرجس الجميلة بعيدا بسرعة‬
‫كبيرة‪ .‬مدة قصيرة من الكآبة بحيث يبدو كما لو حتى شروق الشمس ال تزال لم تصل الى وقت الظهيرة‪ .‬وهكذا‪ ،‬في الشاعر منذ البداية‬
‫‪.‬وابرمت مذكرة للحداد على موت سريع من أزهار النرجس البري‬
‫الشاعر يعالج ثم النرجس ويطلب منهم البقاء حتى طين تنتهي مع صالة العشاء‪ .C‬بعد الصالة معا ويزعم أنهما سوف يرافق أيضا‬
‫‪.‬النرجس‪ .‬وذلك ألن مثل الزهور الرجال أيضا لديهم حياة عابرة جدا‪ ،‬وحتى الشباب هي أيضا قصيرة األجل جدا‬
‫‪،‬لدينا وقت قصير للبقاء‪ ،‬كما كنت"‬
‫‪ ".‬لدينا قصيرة في الربيع‬
‫الشاعر يشير رمزيا للشباب والربيع في هذه السطور‪ .‬انه يعادل ‪ /‬يقارن حياة اإلنسان مع الحياة من أزهار النرجس البري‪ .‬مزيد من‬
‫يقول ان كال منهم تنمو بسرعة جدا ليتم تدميرها في وقت الحق‪ .‬تماما مثل مدة قصيرة من الزهور‪ ،‬والرجال يموتون بعيدا جدا في وقت‬
‫قريب‪ .‬حياتهم قصيرة مثل المطر في موسم الصيف‪ ،‬والتي تأتي لفترة قصيرة جدا‪ ،‬والندى‪ ،‬قطرات في الصباح‪ ،‬والتي تختفي بعيدا‬
‫والعودة مرة أخرى أبدا‪ .‬وهكذا‪ ،‬فإن الشاعر بعد المقارنة بين الزهور إلى البشر‪ ،‬وينتقل في وقت الحق إلى كائنات من الطبيعة ‪ -‬انه‬
‫‪.‬بالمقارنة مع حياة النرجس مع مطر الصيف‪ ،‬قطرات الندى‬
‫الفكرة المركزية التي قدمها الشاعر في هذه القصيدة هو أن مثل الزهور نحن البشر لديهم حياة قصيرة جدا في هذا العالم‪ .‬الشاعر يرثي‬
‫‪.‬أننا أيضا حياة كل األشياء األخرى الجميلة تنزلق قريبا في الظل والصمت من القبر‪ .‬ومزاج حزين ومدروس يحيط قصيدة‬
to daffodils by Robert Herrick, he lived in
17th century.

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see

you haste away so soon

* The poet talks to the flowers, he tells them that he is so sad because he knows the life
of the flowers is short and will die soon and leave him.
* he talks to the flowers as human being able to listen and speak in order to attract the
attention of the reader or listener ' this is called personification.'
* (He talks to him as if it is present, (apostrophe.

As yet the early-rising sun

has not attain'd his noon

*The flowers born in the morning, they die and the rising sun hasn't reached the noon
time.

Stay, stay, (sound alliteration)

until the hasting day
has run (symbolic of death)
But to the even-song ;( symbolic referring to the song of death)
and, having pray'd together, we
Will go with you along

*Stay, stay forced rhyme in order to stress his wishes to continue flourish and stay at
the end of the day.
* The poet then addresses the daffodils and asks them to stay until the end of the day
with the evening prayer. After praying together he says that they will also accompany
the daffodils.
 We have short time to stay, as you,
we have as short a spring;
as quick a growth to meet decay,
as you, or anything

* The poet symbolically refers to the youth as spring in these lines. He compares human
life with the life of daffodils. Further he says that both of them grow very fast to be
destroyed later. Just like the short duration of the flowers, human too die away soon.
*he compares the human life with daffodils that all of them have short life (simile)
*he continues comparing the daffodils life to spring season to show the shortness of life.

As quick a growth to meet decay,

*he compares the daffodils to the period of growth.

As you or anything
we die

*Every creature will be dying. And we die.

 Like to the summer's rain;
Or as the pearls of morning's dew,
ne'er to be found again.

Their life is as short as the rain of the summer season, which comes for a very short
time; and the dew-drops in the morning, which vanish away and never return again.
Thus, the poet after comparing the flowers to humans later turns to the objects of nature
– he has compared the life of daffodils with summer rain, dew drops.
*he compares pearls to the dew to show the beauty, shining and tiny. Last line he
wishes that time goes back but there is no way.
(m etaphor.)

Theme: life is too short, it's called the mutability of life and usually ends sooner than we
wish or desire.
*the lines are short with musical tone
  About

Short Analysis of Robert Herrick’s

To Daffodils
Posted on November 14, 2009. Filed under: Poetry |

To Daffodils

by Robert Herrick

Fair daffodils, we weep to see

You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain’d his noon.
Stay, stay
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the evensong;
And, having pray’d together, we
Will go with you along.

We have short time to stay, as you,

We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away
Like to the summer’s rain;
Or as the pearls of morning’s dew,
Ne’er to be found again.
Surface meaning:

In his poem ‘To Daffodils’, the poet Robert Herrick begins by saying that we grieve to see the
beautiful daffodils being wasted away very quickly. The duration of their gloom is so short that it
seems even the rising sun still hasn’t reached the noon-time. Thus, in the very beginning the poet
has struck a note of mourning at the fast dying of daffodils.
The poet then addresses the daffodils and asks them to stay until the clay ends with the evening
prayer. After praying together he says that they will also accompany the daffodils. This is so
because like flowers men too have a very transient life and even the youth is also very short-
lived.

Deep meaning:

“We have short time to stay, as you,

We have as short a spring.”

Robert Herrick symbolically refers to the youth as spring in these lines. He equates/compares
human life with the life of daffodils. Further he says that both of them grow very fast to be
destroyed later. Just like the short duration of the flowers, men too die away soon. Their life is as
short as the rain of the summer season, which comes for a very short time; and the dew-drops in
the morning, which vanish away and never return again. Thus, the poet after comparing the
flowers to humans, later turns to the objects of nature – he has compared the life of daffodils
with summer rain, dew drops.
Theme:

 the short-lived nature of life, the fleeting passage of time.

 like the flowers we humans have a very short life in this world.
 beauty is not going to stay forever.
Messages:

Life is short, and world is beautiful, love is splendid and we must use the short time we live to
make the most of it. This is shown in the words “haste”, “run”, “short” and “quick”.
  the poem shows the sad tone or the poet is so sad because he knows that daffidols life is
so short.he gives by the way afact that our life is really o short in some sense,so if you
live for ahunderd years till you feel as afive minuts.and the poet asks the affidols to tay
alife though he knows that its will not stay .because death will end all things in life.the
life is beautiful like daffidols and the poet campare his life with the daffidols because
both of them have short life.we know everything on earth is asubject to death so dont be
scant.

.: :.

Robert\'s poem it showed that love is great and we must use the short time we live on earth to
make the most of it. Robert compares the short time of a human\'s life to the short time daffodils
have when blooming. \"Never to be found again\" meant as if once dead you can never be found
alive again. Robert talks about the body\'s eventual death.

.A constant theme of the songs written by Robert Herrick is the short-lived nature of life, the
fleeting passage of time. We find a note of melancholy/sadness in his poem which arises out of
the realization that beauty is not going to stay forever.
In his poem ‘To Daffodils’, the poet Robert Herrick begins by saying that we grieve to see the
beautiful daffodils being wasted away very quickly. The duration of their gloom is so short that it
seems even the rising sun still hasn’t reached the noon-time. Thus, in the very beginning the poet
has struck a note of mourning at the fast dying of daffodils.
The poet then addresses the daffodils and asks them to stay until the clay ends with the evening
prayer. After praying together he says that they will also accompany the daffodils. This is so
because like flowers men too have a very transient life and even the youth is also very short-
lived.
“We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring.”
The poet symbolically refers to the youth as spring in these lines. He equates/compares human
life with the life of daffodils. Further he says that both of them grow very fast to be destroyed
later. Just like the short duration of the flowers, men too die away soon. Their life is as short as
the rain of the summer season, which comes for a very short time; and the dew-drops in the
morning, which vanish away and never return again. Thus, the poet after comparing the flowers
to humans, later turns to the objects of nature – he has compared the life of daffodils with
summer rain, dew drops.
The central idea presented by the poet in this poem is that like the flowers we humans have a
very short life in this world. The poet laments that we too life all other beautiful things soon slip
into the shadow and silence of grave. A sad and thoughtful mood surrounds the poem.

.: :.

1-4. Good Daffodils, we are sad to see you die; you die quicker than the rising sun that has not
reached noon.
5-10. Don’t die, untill the the sun has left; we will live together and then we will die together.
11-14. We also can only live as long as you, we die when spring is gone, we will die once we are
grown.
15-20. when we die as the hours pass we will wither away with the summer in the rain; or like te
dew which is never to be seen again.
.: :.

The main theme of the poem is about the ravages of time as used by Shakespeare and many other
poets in their sonnets.
Here the narrator is advising the virgins to make use of their youth whilst they still have it on
their side. He warns them that if they don't heed to his advice their condition might be like the
flowers who smile brightly when they bloom , but it's only ephemeral because by the time they
they soak themselves in their beauty, it's time for them to fade away or wither.
In the second stanza the narrator uses the metaphor of Sun to convey the theme of passing of
time. He says, as the glorious lamp of heaven, the "Sun" when in his full energey is at the highest
point, fades away when it's time for him to finish his race.
In the third stanza the narrator is convinced that the best time for everybody to enjoy is "youth"
when your blood is warm i.e. when you have beauty and energy on your side. Once they leave
your side you will only face the worst time of your life and nothing less.
The last stanza is a kind of didacticism, wherein the narrator advises the coy virgins not to waste
their prime time because they won't get it back once they have lost it. It's no use repenting
afterwards about the things they could have done in their youth once they have outgrown it
because of their coyness.
Written by : Alaa Cali4nia Boy

A summary of meaning of this poem:

Herrick compares the brevity of human life to the brief flowering of Spring daffodils. The last
three lines suggest a finality ('Never to be found again.'). Is this at odds with the religious
sentiment of the first verse ('evensong', 'prayed together')? No, Herrick is only talking about the
body's eventual death. He almost certainly believes in God and in an afterlife.
magine it is late spring. As your thoughts wander, your eyes drift out the window to the sunny
backyard. Birds are chirping and the air is warm. The garden is full of life, as flowers bloom and
butterflies flutter about. But there is one thing wrong with this happy picture. The daffodils that
bloomed in this garden just a few weeks ago are brown and wilted: dead. This is the picture
illustrated in Robert Herrick’s poem, "To Daffodils." The theme of the poem is that life, whether
floral or human, is short and usually ends sooner than desired. Herrick uses the rhythm, structure,
and symbolism of the poem to support his theme.
The first technique that Herrick uses in his poem is rhythm; the rhythm of the poem is very short
and disconnected, because it is composed of many short lines and words. Even the poem itself is
very brief in length. A few short lines in this poem are: "Stay, stay", "Has run", "We die", and
"Away." These lines are all created with one or two words and each contains only two syllables.
They are shorter than the average line of four to five words. Some of the many short words that
are used in the poem are: "we", "to", "so", "as", "go", "a", "or", "do", "of", "be", "yet", "and",
"but", and "the." Each of these words has only a few letters and only one syllable, so they are
said very quickly.
Written by : Alaa Cali4nia Boy
 

The Daffodil is one of the first flowers of spring. Often the daffodil will bloom while the winter
is trying to hold on, making it a short lived flower. The Latin name for the Daffodil is Narcissus.
Narcissus was a man who was in love with himself and stood over a pool of water staring at his
reflection until he turned into a flower. The Daffodil represents unrequited love or deceitful
hopes archaically, but modern day it has taken on other meanings. Generally it is a flower that is
bad luck for a wedding. I don't know man.. that's all I got..