Daffodils

Form :The four six-line stanzas of this poem follow a quatrain-couplet rhyme scheme:
ABABCC.
A perfect example of emotion recollected in tranquility, the poet doesnt describe the
moment in which he saw the flowers but he memory of them
when on my couch I lie | in vacant or in pensive mood, | they flash upon that inward eye
| which is the bliss of solitude)..
The poem opens with the poet wandering alone , and seems detached from the reality that
surrond him floats on high. And then he came across a crowd of daffodils stretching
out over almost everything he could see, "fluttering and dancing in the breeze":
We have a reverse personification : the poet is metaphorically compared to a natural
object, a cloudI wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high..., and the daffodils
are continually personified as human beings, dancing and tossing their heads in a
crowd, a host.
This technique implies a unity between man and nature
In the second stanza the speaker goes into more detail about the daffodils. They reminded
him of the Milky Way, because there were so many flowers packed together that they
seemed to be neverending.
in the third stanza the speaker compares the waves of the lake to the waves of daffodils
and decides that even though the lake is "sparkling," the daffodils win because they have
more "glee." He then comments that he, like any other poet, could not help but be happy
"in such a jocund company." He looked at the scene for a long time, but while he was there
he was unable to understand what he had gained from the experience
In the fourth and final stanza the poet describes what he gained from the experience.
Afterwards, when he was lonely or feeling "pensive," he could remember the daffodils,
seeing them with his "inward eye," and be content. this kind of solitude is very different
from the melancholy loneliness described at the beginning of the poem. In this condition
the poet finds his heart dancing with joy, a joy which revives the pleasure participated in
when he observed the dance of the daffodils in the breeze.
All nature appears wonderfully alive and happy in fact the cloud floats on high; the stars
shine and twinkle, the waves dance and sparkle in glee. The daffodils, too, are not static
like in a painting, but alive with motion. They are in fact fluttering and dancing in the
breeze, and tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The sight of the flowers brings the poet
delight but he doesnt realize that at the moment but only later, when memory brings back
the scene. It is clear that the daffodils have a metaphorical meaning. They may represent
the voice of nature, which is scarcely audible except in solitude.