Daffodils

   

                              

      

                Daffodils

                  - William WordsWorth

William worth woth was one of the major poets of his time honored as England's poet literature. He was a nature poet who helped to coin the term 'Romanticism' in English Literature along with I.A Richards in 1798, by the publication of 'Lyrical Ballads".

       William wordsworth wrote Daffodis on a stormy day in day in spring, while walking along with his sister Dorothy near Ullswater lake in England. He imagined that the daffodils were dancing and invoking him to join and enjoy the breezy nature of the fields. Dorothy words worth the yonger sister of william wordsworth, found the poem so interesting that she 'Daffodils' as the subjects for her journal. The poem contains six lines in four stanzas as an appreciation of daffodils.

             

                      The Speaker says that wandering like a cloud floating above hills and valleys he encountered a filed of daffodils beside a lake. The dancing , fluttering flower stretched endlessly along the shore, and though the waves of the lake danced beside the flowers the daffodils outdid  the water in glee. The speaker says that a poet could nit helpe but be happy in such a joyful company of flowers. He says that he started and stared, but did not relized what wealth the scene would bring him. For now whenever he feels "vacant" or "pensive", the memory flashes upon "that inward eye/ That is the bliss of Solitude", and his heart fills with pleasure, "and dance with daffodils".

        The poem 'Daffodils' is also known by the title ' I Wander Lonely as a Cloud', a lyrical poem written by william wordsworth in 1804. It was published in 1815 in 'Collected Poems' with four Stanzas.William Wordsworth is a well- known romantic poet who belived in conveying simple and creative expressions through his poems. He had quoted "poetry is the Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility". Thus Daffodils is one of the most popular poems of the Romantic Age, unfolding the poet's excitement , love and parise for a field blossoming with daffodils.

  *The four six-line stanza of this poem Follow a quatrain- couplet rhyme scheme: ABABCC.

   Each line is metered in iambic tetrameter.