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Daffodils by William Wordsworth Poetry Intertextual Oral Task

Uploaded by 8drian on Jul 19, 2007

Flowers are perhaps one of the main symbols of happiness in the world. This is because of their bright colours, amazing shapes and often beautiful fragrance. Therefore, they are arguably the most common topic for poetry. Many people will immediately come across flowers when thinking about nature, but little do they think and appreciate the wonder of flowers when walking around everyday. This is because flowers are grown all over this planet and are often thought as being ordinary. However William Wordsworth has been able to capture his experience in one of his most famous poems by the name of “Daffodils” which will be the basis of my oral today. William Wordsworth was a major English romantic poet who helped launch the Romantic Age of English Literature. I will be comparing his poem to a photo of daffodils which was taken in England. The poem clearly describes the appearance of the daffodils that Wordsworth encountered on a stormy day when walking by Ullswater in England and especially focusing on the way that the daffodils look dancing as if they are on a breezy day. The poem is as follows:

Daffodils

I wonder’d lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vale 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 the bay;
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee –
A poet could not but be gay
In such 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.

William Wordsworth (1815)

Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” is written in the form of a lyric. There is a consistent rhyming scheme throughout the whole poem. The rhyming scheme for the first stanza is A,B,A,B and then ends with a rhyming couplet C,C which continues throughout the whole poem. The iambic pentameter rhythm varies slightly ranging from 7-9 syllables in each line. Enjambment is common throughout the poem to express longer ideas and enables us to see exactly how the poem should be read...

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Date:   07/19/2007

Category:   Poetry

Length:   4 pages (997 words)

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