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Stylistic Analysis of Daffodils - Coggle Diagram
Stylistic Analysis of Daffodils
Theme:
Understanding the value and beauty of nature. The poet uses nature as his way of 'escaping' his overwhelming feelings behind.
William Wordsworth's poetry provides an especially intriguing range of techniques.
Biography of the poet
William Wordswroth
7 April 1770
Cockermouth, Cumbria, England.
Well known for his poetry about nature and love for nature.
Methodology
: The initial interpretation of 'Daffodil' came about solely as a consequence of looking at the words in the poem. Researcher did not focus particularly on the grammatical and graphological elements.
Lexical Features:
Consists of mainly open class words which are nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.
Graphological Level:
4 stanzas, 6 lines each. Complete sentences with most punctuations present. Incomplete spellings like ‘over’ as ‘o’er’ and ‘often’ as ‘oft’.
Graphological parallelism
": Each stanza has six lines and the complete stanza is in a form of a complete but longer sentence.
Poetic devices
consonance
-alliteration:
l
one
l
y as a c
l
oud
simile
-poet has used "as a cloud"
personification
in the first line, the poet compared the cloud as a lonely human
and the poet has also compared daffodils to a crowd of people
Metonymy
a figure of speech in which an important aspect of the object is used to represent the whole picture of object
Imagery
By personifying daffodils as human beings that are 'fluttering and dancing', the pet created the image of dancing daffodils.
Onomatopoeia
is the effect that is produced when the words used to describe the sound contain similar sounds or noise. :
Personification:
Compared clouds to lonely human, daffodils to a crowd of people and dancing human
Deviation
: a type of foregrounding that describe unexpected irregularity.
Introduction of the Poem
published in 1807, but the second version along with the fourth stanza that was about the memory of those daffodils emerged in 1815.
The rhyming scheme is ABABCC.
Daffodils is a simple but beautiful poem, one of the loveliest and most famous poems of Wordsworth that reminds us of the familiar subjects of Wordsworth’s poetry that is nature and memory.
Conclusion
, the choice of words by Wordsworth has made us feel like we are there to witness the Daffodils tossing their heads and dancing happily, in a row along the bay with the gleaming waves. The imagery and the metaphors have made this poem a simple but extraordinary poem.