Hello Everyone and Welcome to this Beaming Notes Presentation, where we discuss the Critical Analysis, Theme and Tone of the Poem Daffodils by William Wordsworth.
Voice-Over and Narration : Anushree Sen
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Critical Analysis:
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I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o’er vales and hills / For oft, when on my couch I lie, in vacant…..with pleasures fills.
In the starting of the poem, the poet was floating high but was morally low. As we come to the end of the poem,
the poet, in spite being on the couch (low) was morally high.
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Theme:
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The poem goes through a gradual shift..from wandered lonely (line 1) to but be gay (line 15) and pleasures fill (line 23).
This in actual reflects Wordsworth’s life. The feeling of loneliness was marked by the death of his brother John. Dorothy had been a great sister to Wordsworth and also Wordsworth got married in the same year 1802 (his second marriage).
These life events were actually responsible for Wordsworth’s actually happiness in his life and thus correlates with Daffodils.
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Tone:
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Daffodils analysis will be incomplete without illustrating the tone of the poem. This poem is typically Wordsworthian. Its portray Nature at its best and encompasses her grace to the pinnacle which every poets cannot reach. It projects Wordsworth’s extraordinary delight in understanding and exploring common place things (key point).
Emotions recollected in tranquility are the distinct factor which differentiates Wordsworth from other poets. The emotions associated with Wordsworth in this poem, Daffodils is not ephemeral but rather permanent and everlasting. The poet derives the same bliss from his thoughts about the daffodil when he actually saw them.
They flashed upon the inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude:
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dance with the daffodils.
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