DAFFODILS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

LECTURER : MADAM AISAH BEE BT MOHD HANIFF GROUP MEMBER: SHAHIRAH IZZATI BT SHAIK OSMAN SITI HAJAR BT BAKAR

PICTURES OF DAFFODILS

DAFFODILS BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTHI wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee; A poet could not be but gay, In such a jocund company! I gazedand gazedbut little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

STANZA 1I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

SUMMARY STANZA 1While wandering like a cloud, the speaker happens upon daffodils fluttering in a breeze on the shore of a lake, beneath trees. Daffodils are plants in the lily family with yellow flowers and a crown shaped like a trumpet. The poet has compared himself to a floating cloud passing over hills and valleys. He was on a stroll through the countryside when he suddenly came across countless yellow daffodils. These daffodils were beside a lake under trees. The flowing breeze made the daffodils flutter and it seemed as if they were dancing.

SUMMARY STANZA 2Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.y The daffodils stretch all along the shore. Because there are so

many of them, they remind the speaker of the Milky Way, the galaxy that scientists say contains about one trillion stars, including the sun. The speaker humanizes the daffodils when he says they are engaging in a dance.

SUMMARY STANZA 3The waves beside them danced, but they Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee; A poet could not be but gay, In such a jocund company! I gazedand gazedbut little thought What wealth the show to me had brought:y There were waves on the surface of the lake, but these waves of

water were no match for the waves of daffodils rippling in the breeze. Wordsworth has remarked that a poet can feel nothing but happiness in that kind of cheerful company. Although he beheld the beautiful sight for a long time, he did not understand the true value of that beautiful experience just then.

SUMMARY STANZA 4For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.y Whenever the poet is in low spirits, the sight of the daffodils

flashes in his mind. His heart fills with joy and happiness and it seems to him as if his heart is dancing with the daffodils.

EXAMPLES OF FIGURES OF SPEECHy Simile: lonely as a cloud y Personification: Comparison of the cloud to a lonely human. (line 1) y Alliteration: Beside the Lake, beneath the

trees(line 5) Continuous as the stars that shine(line7) lonely as a cloud (line 1). What wealth the show to me had brought (line 18)y Internal rhyming (fluttering and dancing) line 6

y Hyperbole: Ten thousand saw I at a glance(line 11) y Personification: Tossing their heads in sprightly

dance.(line 12) In such a jocund company!(line16) y Repetition: I gazed twice (line 17) y Alliteration: And dances with the daffodils(line 24)

STRUCTURE & RHYME SCHEMEy The poem contains four stanzas of six lines each. In each

stanza, the first line rhymes with the third and the second with the fourth. The stanza then ends with a rhyming couplet. y Wordsworth unifies the content of the poem by focusing the first three stanzas on the experience at the lake and the last stanza on the memory of that experience.

RHYMING SCEMEI wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. A B A B C C

THEMES OF DAFFODILSy Nature' s beauty uplifts the human spirit. Lines 15, 23, and 24

specifically refer to this theme. y People sometimes fail to appreciate nature's wonders as they go about their daily routines. Lines 17 and 18 suggest this theme. y Nature thrives unattended. The daffodils proliferate in splendour along the shore of the lake without the need for human attention.

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