Outline

            -The Title

                        -has another title, “The Daffodils”

                       

            -Inspiration

                        -Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy find patch of daffodils

                        -poem is an attempt to recreate the vision

                        -also to pass on the vision to others

                        -suggests to others that they go out and find something that does the same for them

           

            -Rhyme scheme

                        -goes A B A B C C E D E D F F G H G H I I

                        -iambic tetrameter- 4 iams per line predominantly, unstressed-stressed

                        -areas without tetrameter:

                                    -sacrificed for use of rich adjectives in one case (line 6)

                                    -sacrificed to make the poem read better in another (line 7)

                                    -gives way to how innumerable the stars in the galaxy are, lending dramatic effect to

his words (line 8)

                                    -all next to one another, perhaps to conserve the disruption it caused to the poem

 

            -Historical Biographical

                        -this event happened, he and his sister discovered these daffodils

                        -Romantic style requires passion and imagery to take over from fact and the dull life

                        -must be important to his life: he wrote about it!

                        -on the top layer it attempts to share with the reader the experience

                        -more subtly it suggests that the reader should go out and find something on their own

                                    -last lines remark upon his own happiness at his discovery, leading the reader with the

idea that they can do the same thing

                        -title describes his own feelings about fate and human mind vs nature

                                    -as a cloud he has no control over his movement, he just moved according to nature’s

guides and found himself at the patch of flowers

           

            -Formalistic

                        -meaning remains much the same as a standalone from his life

                        -still a tribute to mother Gaia, beauty, purpose, drive

                        -rhyme scheme holds the poem together with a common thread but splits up stanzas in

separate explanations

                                    1^st. Sets the scene

                                    2^nd. Praises daffodils over its competitors (ocean)

                                    3^rd. Describes his own happiness at the sight

                                    4^th. Suggests that the reader (and each individual) needs something similar to

facilitate happiness

 

            Questions?