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.
THEME:
The above lines are about the soothing power of nature. While wandering like a cloud, the speaker happens to see daffodils fluttering in a breeze on the shore of a lake, beneath the trees. Daffodils are plant in the lily family with yellow flowers and a crown shaped like trumpet. The lines are written in iambic pentameter. The poet loved to display the beauty of nature in his works and ponder on what emotional responses nature could evoke. Thud in this lyrics poem, the poet focuses on his response to the beauty of nature.
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