Learning Paths » 5A Interacting
Ex 1 setting in the stanzas:
first stanza: country side
second stanza: country side or sea side
third stanza: mind of the poet or country side
fourth stanza: poet's home
Ex 2 poem's analysis
The speaking voice says that, wandering like a cloud floating above hills and valleys, he encountered a field of daffodils beside a lake. The dancing, fluttering flowers stretched endlessly along the shore, and though the waves of the lake danced beside the flowers, the daffodils outdid the water in glee. The speaker says that a poet could not help but be happy in such a joyful company of flowers. He says that he stared and stared, but did not realize what wealth the scene would bring him. Whenever the poet feels "vacant" or "pensive," the memory flashes upon "that inward eye / That is the bliss of solitude," and his heart fills with pleasure, "and dances with the daffodils."
The poem is an individual riflession about the joy and the nature, so the poem does not give a universal idea of joy, or human condition; it is a translation of the poet's feelings and memories.
daffodils are connoted as gold, so they are precious for the poet, because they full poet's "heart with pleasure fills" when he things about them.
The last stanza makes the reader understand the idea of poetry during the romanticism: it was consider as a risult of an emotion recollected in tranquillity. It is a result of an experience filtred by the emotional reactions of the speaking voice.