MB UNIUD

Exercise 1

Setting in the poem:

•·         First stanza: country side

•·         Second stanza: sea side

•·         Third stanza: poet's mind or country side

•·         Fourth stanza: poet's home

Exercise 2

Poem's analysis

Poet 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 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 reflection 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 conveys the idea of poetry during the Romanticism: it was consider as a result of an emotion recollected in tranquility. It is a result of an experience filtered by the emotional reactions of the speaking voice.