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Identify and explain the figures of speech used in the poem The Daffodils by William Wordsworth.
In the poem ‘Daffodils’ or ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ the poet has used several figures of speech to give it a rhetorical effect. Those are elaborated below.
Simile
Simile is a direct comparison between two different things using ‘as’ or ‘like’.
I wandered lonely as a cloud
In the above line, the poet has compared himself to a cloud using ‘as’. This is an example of simile.
Continuous as the stars that shine
…margin of a bay
In the above extract the poet has compared the flowers with the shining stars on the Milky Way.
Alliteration
Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sound at the beginning or in stressed syllables of nearby words.
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
And dances with the daffodils
The repetition of the sounds ‘b’ and ‘d’ in above lines are examples of alliteration.
Hyperbole
Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement.
When all at once I saw a crowd,
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
In the two examples above, the poet has used ‘crowd’ and ‘ten thousand’ to mean a lot of daffodils. But he must not have count
Answer:
Wordsworth was making a comparison between human loneliness and the isolation of a single cloud in the sky. A simile compares two things with the words ‘as’ or ‘like.’ It’s different from a metaphor, which says something is a thing more directly and doesn’t bother to use the linking words.
I remember visiting Dove Cottage when I was in England where Wordsworth lived when he wrote Daffodils. Beautiful place. My daughter was quite taken with the poem .
Explanation:
Simile are used in line 1st and 7th. In first line he makes indirect comparison by calling himself a cloud, in 7th line make indirect comparison between daffodils and stars on milky way.