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Poem: Daffodils by Willam Wordsworth

It is said that loneliness is the ultimate poverty. It shatters the morale of a person.it is an unpleased response of a person to isolation and the response is usually a complex one. It causes a person to feel anxiety and lack of connection with other beings in whatever state he or she is surviving such emotion. However, the people who surround such person who is lonely can feel it very easily. There is always some reason behind this emotion. The reason can be of a variety of kinds ranging from a relationship, family, etc. In somewhat technical terms of psychology, loneliness is the psychological mechanism which requires a person to seek social connections. It occurs when the social network of a person becomes deficient due to any reason. In this poem, William Words Worth in his masterpiece “Daffodils” reflects in the first stanza “I wandered lonely as a cloud” also reflect the same feelings. His poetry has been the true picture of imagination. The poet wrote the poem in 1802, and it tells about the sentiments of being left alone.

Wordsworth has been known as a nature poet. This poem is a continuation of the same theme and complements to the genre of Wordsworth. He found similarity in the ordinary things to explain about his feelings and thoughts. The emotions that he had conveyed through this poem are not temporary but are everlasting. The imagination he built was driven by the actual and real-time situation that he encountered, and he narrated the same with simplicity. As the context of the poem discussed earlier, the emotions of the poem are attached to this piece of writing that when he saw daffodils, he in no time connected them with the emotion he had in his mind.

The context of the poem was the death of his brother which caused him to be alone. Wordsworth describes in the initial lines and compares himself to the ‘cloud’ that flows freely over the hills. This line represents the idea of seclusion. While narrating this line the author is describing his condition and the way he is going through the phases of life after the tragedy of his brother he has gone through. Further, in the poem, the author says that “Then all at once I saw a crowd” by the term crowd he reflects the presence of a group of flowers known as daffodils. This contradiction shows that as a human the author preferred to be secluded however by using the word crowd of daffodils he means that it bewildered the senses of the poet and he became subjugated to the feeling of ecstasy. He further describes that the bunch of flowers of daffodils that he saw besides the lake were golden in color and were dancing in the breeze. Daffodils are the flowers which commonly grow at the bank of a river where the weather conditions support.

The poet strengthens his imagination by exemplifying the comparison to the stars and provide new evidence to create a sketch. He compares both and finds similarity between ‘a host of daffodils’ and stars that shine on a milky was as innumerable. The sketch which the poet has made throughout the poem reflects that how in his loneliness affected him and he found his world in the natural grace which he further described in his words. He tried to convert this natural grace into his words to reflect the vista and then he showed that how he utilized that vista to overcome his loneliness.

At the end of the poem, the poet describes that when he had a pensive mood, and he lied down on his couch, he recalled the whole situation in his mind. He further adds that in the time of loneliness, when there is no one who could cause to disrupt his imagination, the revived the whole memories of daffodils as this sight was able to provide the poet a sense of pleasure which he found very joyful at the time which might have stressed him out or contained the probability of increasing his anxiety levels.

Thus, the poem reflects the ups and lows in the life of the poet. As in the start when the poet describes that ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ and at the end when he said ‘They flash upon that inward eye’ and ‘which is the bliss of solitude’ these lines describe the two different scenarios. As in the start, the poet was sad due to the feeling of solitude after the death of his brother and he expressed those feelings in the start, he felt morally low during that period. However later on as the poet saw the ‘golden daffodils’ that were ‘dancing in the breeze’, and the ‘shining starts that were stretch on a never-ending line his morale got a boost which he further affirmed by saying that as the poet was impressed by this natural gaze, he recalled that sight whenever he felt alone and tagged this imagination and a bliss of solitude.

Works Cited

“I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud (Daffodils): Stanza 2 Summary.” Shmoop.com. N. p., 2018. Web. 4 Apr. 2018.

“I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud By William Wordsworth.” Poetry Foundation. N. p., 2018. Web. 4 Apr. 2018.

Loneliness Quotes – BrainyQuote. (2018). BrainyQuote. Retrieved 4 April 2018, from https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/loneliness

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