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DAFFODILS - VA - GROUP 1
AUTHOR
: William Wordsworth
Was born in the English
Lake District
so nature influenced him.
TITLE
Daffodils
It's one of Wordsworth's most famous poems, in which he transmits his love for nature
THEMES
:
It's a typically romantic text, characterized by the relationship between man and Nature and the conception of poetry as a reminder of a vivid emotion. The text is based on an autobiographical experience, namely a walk in the countryside with his beloved sister Dorothy during which the poet is faced with an expanse of daffodils along a lake.
The poem is a perfect example of those "emotions recollected in tranquillity" of which Wordsworth speaks in his Preface to the Lyrical Ballads. He does not describe the moment when he saw daffodils, but the memory of that moment, as seen above all in the last verse of the text (vv. 19-22: "when on my couch I lie | in vacant or in pensive mood, | flash upon that Inward eye | which is the bliss of solitude").
NARRATOR
first narrator
: Wordsworth himself
RHYME- METER
The poem Daffodils consists of 24 iambic tetrameter verses divided into four sexes, with ABABCC rhyme scheme.
FIGURES OF SPEACH:
Similes:
line 1 “I wandered lonely as a cloud”: he compares his loneliness with a cloud. Line
7 “Continues as the stars that shine”:Wordsworth compares the endless row of daffodils with countless stars.
Metaphor
: line 3-4; line 5 “fluttering and dancing in the breeze”: the flowers move as if they were dancing. Line 21 “they flesh upon that inward eye”: the inner eye represents the poet's memory
Personifications
: lines 3-4 “a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils”. Line 5 “fluttering and dancing”: as if the flowers could dance like people do. Line 12 “tossing their heads”: as if the flowers could move their "heads". Line 13 “the waves beside them danced”. Line 23-24 “my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils”.
Assonance
: line 9 “They stretched in never-ending line” repetition of “e”. Line 11 “Ten
thousand I saw at a glance” repetition of “a” and “e
ATTITUDE:
The primary sensation is joy, which fills poetry with the choice of vocabulary and images. The poet uses, for example, words like: gay, jocund, wealth, bliss, pleasure
