Question

What kind of a poem is ‘Daffodils’? Explain with examples from the poem.​

Answer 1

William Wordsworth’s famous poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is sometimes called “Daffodils” because of the poem’s image of a host of golden daffodils shimmering and dancing in the wind. But the daffodils are more than an image. In Wordsworth’s poem they become a metaphor for joy, transport and poetry itself. Wordsworth defined poetry as powerful emotion reflected in tranquility. Here, we find the daffodils creating powerful emotion, which Wordsworth turned into a poem.