why has the poet called daffodils a crowd and
how are they in contrast to his loneliness describe
the social relevance of the poem "the Daffodils"
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I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales 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 stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a 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)
The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802 in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils.[4] Written some time between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth's own account),[5] it was first published in 1807 in Poems, in Two Volumes, and a revised version was published in 1815.[6]
In a poll conducted in 1995 by the BBC Radio 4 Bookworm programme to determine the nation's favourite poems, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud came fifth.[7] Often anthologised, the poem is commonly seen as a classic of English Romantic poetry, although Poems, in Two Volumes, in which it first appeared, was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries.