Sunday, October 11, 2015

Explain the poem "The Daffodils" by Wordsworth and give its central idea.

poem 


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.

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