My Featured Poem

Daffodils by William Wordsworth

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.

Published in Collected Poems, 1815

Audio Version

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35uXO7DpT2U

I. About the Poem

  "Daffodils" is written by William Wordsworth in 1804. When he traveled with his sister, he written "Daffodils".

Works Cited （参考文献）

http://poetry.hix05.com/Wordsworth/wordsworth09.html

II. About the Author

　
　William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads(1798).

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point -theme(主題、テーマ)

Theme is the central idea of a work of literature.

The theme of this poem is nature. It is represented as if daffodil is almost alive.

B. Reaction Point - couplet(対句）
Couplet is a pair of rhymed lines that may or may not constitute a separate stanza in a poem.
In this poem, Wordsworth used couplet.

• host
• ten thousand saw I at a glance

C. Reaction Point - personification(擬人化)

Personification is giving human characteristics to something non human.　In this poem, Wordsworth used theme . It is personification that the daffodil has been blowing in the wind.

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

D. My General Opinion

I like this poem because I think it is beautiful and great expression. The time lag of experience and writing is very long. I was amazed.