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Daffodils
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An event triggering a sudden
feeling of cheerfulness and joy.
 Wordsworth believed that every
flower enjoys the air it breathes
and things of nature can teach
man.
 Then he can see books in brooks,
sermons in stones, and the
wisdom of the sages if one can
reciprocate with things of beauty.
 They are created in simple
language in rustic surroundings
with humble people
William Wordsworth
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Romantic poet author of Preface to
Lyrical Ballads and the famous poems
Tintern Abbey and Ode to Intimations
of Immortality brought back to poetry
the lilt of music and the magic of the
sense of wonder in natural things.
He was inspired by the French
revolution.
He finds infancy is like life in paradise
and how ageing blunts the sensitivity of
man to impulses from nature.
He appeared to have seen God in
nature. In a rock, a tree, a river, a bird,
or a wave in motion.
He was a great friend of S.T. Coleridge.
"Daffodils" (1804)
I WANDER'D 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 stretch'd 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 waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed -- and gazed -- but 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.
By William Wordsworth (1770-1850).
Exercise
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What does the poet compare himself to?
What did he see all at once?
In the line beginning with continuous, daffodils are
compared to --------What is the meaning of ten thousand in the context?
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance – means ----What seemed more joyous, the waves or the daffodils?
In line 18 what does wealth mean?
Details
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Notice line 1, 7, 13. What is being compared to
what?
Where does he see the daffodils?
How are they described in second stanza?
Why could the poet not but be gay?
When do the daffodils flash upon the poet’s
inward eye?
How do the daffodils affect the poet?
Study
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I WANDER'D
lonely as a cloud
 Continuous as the
stars that shine
In these lines there is
a comparison. Such
a comparison is
called a simile
Activities
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List the expressions used
to describe the daffodils.
Check and confirm that
the term dance is there in
every stanza and what
does it tell about the
poet’s mood?
What term suggests
innumerable in the
poem
Analysis
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William Wordsworth through
anecdotes in sylvan surroundings
creates a natural scene.
In this poem he celebrates the
impulses of daffodils on him.
To William Wordsworth, nature
was the visible manifestation of
the invisible God.
The impact of the incident is
recalled later in time
It is revived with intensity
because of remembered feelings
enriched by imagination
Solitude
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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.
SOPFRT
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Spontaneous
Overflow
Powerful
Feelings
Recollected in
Tranquility
Assignment
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Read the poems
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To Daffodils
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Lotus
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by Robert Herrick
by Torudutt
Can you explain the
line heard melodies
are sweet but those
unheard are sweeter
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