Question

Critical appreciation of the poem 'Daffodils' by William Wordsworth.

Answer 1

appreciation: This poem is very simple, and it is considered one of the loveliest and most famous in the Wordsworth canon. It revisits the familiar subjects of nature and memory, this time with a particularly (simple) spare, musical eloquence. It also reflects his concept of the romanticism imagination and his belief in the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which he acknowledged as the theory of poetry. The plot is extremely simple, depicting the poet’s wandering and his discovery of a field of daffodils by a lake, the memory of which pleases him and comforts him when he is lonely, bored, or restless. The daffodils are continually personified as human beings, dancing and “tossing their heads” in “a crowd, a host.” This technique implies an inherent unity between man and nature, making it one of Wordsworth’s most basic and effective methods.

     It was inspired by an April 15, 1802 event in which Wordsworth and his sister,Dorothy , came across a “long belt” of daffodils, Written in 1804, it was first published in 1807 the  poems in two volumes, and a revised version was released in 1815, which is more commonly known. It consists of four six-line stanzas, in iambic tetrameter and an ABABCC rhyme scheme.

       As the journal notes, it was a stormy day, which the reader would never guess from reading the poem. He later writes that it rained on them, and they had to go home. Again, somebody thinks that “I wandered lonely as a Cloud” is the perfect poem for a rainy day, and the image of dancing daffodils is a sure-fire cure for a mild case of the blues. Plus, it’s slightly hilarious.  It is a poem that just makes the reader to feel good about life. It says that even when someone feels lonely and missing his friends, he can use his imagination to fine new friends in the world around him. His happiness of the narrator does not last forever – he’s not that unrealistic – but the daffodils give him a little boost of joy whenever he needs it, like recharging his batteries. The poem is combined with the theme of man and the natural world, theme of spirituality and theme of memory and past.

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Answer 2

Daffodils' is a famous poem written by William Wordsworth. In this poem, the poet- William Wordsworth describes one of his real experiences in a beautiful place known for its natural beauty. Once in that place, he was aimlessly walking alone like a cloud and suddenly discovered a bunch of golden daffodils which, mesmerized him and kept him gazing at its wonder. The poet tells that how this simple look was so wonderful for him and what this glance later meant to him. The poet describes this godly beauty of daffodils in many extraordinary remarks and comments. He seems the endless view of the golden (gold-coloured) daffodils as a never-ending line.

After describing the daffodil's beauty, he proceeded on to tell about the beauty of its background and the nice setting it made on the daffodils. At last, after his long gaze, he suddenly asks himself that what does all those meant to him and how it will benefit him and then left the place. But later, he realized how the picture benefitted him and how it made him relaxed when alone.


I think that this poem is wonderful as it lets people love the nature and understand its real beauty, more nicely. It also lets us understand how wonderful God's creations are and in what amount we deny them. In the last part of the poem, the readers learn the importance of nature and also know about the feelings of the poet.