The title, 'Daffodils' is a simple word that reminds us about the arrival of the spring season, when the field is full of daffodils. Daffodils are yellow flowers, having an amazing shape and beautiful fragrance. A bunch of daffodils symbolize the joys and happiness of life.
The theme of the poem is generally about the world surrounding us, and the beauty of nature. Wordsworth uses a variety of different nouns to show the theme of nature. He starts of by talking about daffodils and how they have suddenly come out to start the season off. He then talks of the clouds, the hills and vales, the lake and the trees. In the second Stanza Wordsworth moves on to talk about the galaxy , the milkyway and the stars in the sky. In stanza 3 , he moves on to use the water as part of this theme.
The poem Daffodils has 4 stanzas, and 6 lines per stanza. Wordsworth structures 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. In the first 3 stanzas line 3 is indented. Perhaps it is trying to illustrate a picture in our minds of the movement of the things being described and tries to give a sense of movement. For example, Wordsworth talks about the daffodils fluttering and dancing in the breeze, and the stars twinkling on the milky way which gives a sense of motion and action . In contrast, the 4th stanza has a different layout with most of the lines equal. This gives a sense of calmness and relaxation to describe how he is lying down thinking about what he has just experienced. I have noticed that lines 1 and 2 is talking about the same thing, but just split up in to 2 lines. This also occurs with lines 3 and 4, and 5 and 6. Therefore there is no comma after the first line as it is continued to the next line. I have also noticed that there is roughly 7 or 8 syllables per line.
Also Wordsworth used rhyming to make the stronger. Every stanza of “Daffodils” has the rhyme scheme of A, B, A, B, C, C. As said before , I think that the reason it has been laid out like this is because it shadows a real sense of movement. Rhyming not only makes the poem more interesting, but also makes the rhythm faster, happier, and brighter.
Imagery is used in the poem to create effects, and to make the reader find the poem more enjoyable to read. I have noticed some uses of Metaphors, similes, personification, and onomatopoeia. In the third and fourth line the poet uses the metaphor “a crowd, a host of golden daffodils” to compare the daffodils with people, because when thinking of “a crowd” you think of human beings.
In the first line, Wordsworth says "I wandered lonely as a cloud." This is a simile comparing the wondering of a man to a cloud drifting through the sky. I suppose the wandering cloud is lonely because there is nothing up there that high in the sky besides it. It can pass by unnoticed, touching nothing. Also, the image of a cloud brings to mind a light, sort of wandering. Wordsworth uses another simile, saying the dancing of daffodils in the wind is "continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the Milky Way." This line creates the image of the wind blowing the tops of random daffodils up and down. This goes along with the next metaphor of the daffodils "tossing their heads in sprightly dance." Comparing their movement to a dance also makes me think of swirling, swishing yellow skirts moving in harmony. There is a strong use of personification, where the author writes, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Clearly Daffodils don’t dance, however the author of the poem is trying to compare it to what a person would do. Although the line ‘Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.’ is a simile, it could also be classed as personification. Although Daffodils may move in the wind, they could not toss their heads in sprightly dance, like any flower that can’t. Repetition is used frequently in the poem. An example of this technique is I gazed -- and gazed where the word gazed is used repeatedly emphasize that he gazed.
