The title, 'Daffodils' is a simple word that reminds us of the arrival of spring, when the field is full of daffodils. Daffodils are yellow flowers, having an amazing shape and beautiful fragrance. A bunch of daffodils symbolize the joy and happiness of life. The theme of the poem 'Daffodils' is a collection of human emotions inspired by nature that we may have not noticed enough due to our busy lives. The daffodils imply beginning or rebirth for human beings, blessed with the grace of nature. The arrival of daffodils in the month of March is welcomed and it's an enjoyable time to appreciate them!

William Wordsworth wrote Daffodils on a stormy day in spring, while walking along with his sister Dorothy near Ullswater Lake, in England. He imagined that the daffodils were dancing and invoking him to join and enjoy the breezy nature of the fields. Dorothy Wordsworth, the younger sister of William Wordsworth, found the poem so interesting that she took 'Daffodils' as the subject for her journal. The poem is written as an appreciation of daffodils, and contains six lines in four stanzas. In the first stanza, the writer finds himself as a lonely cloud floating over the valley. The author describes himself 'lonely' because his brother John was dead, leaving him alone and sad. Then he encountered the yellow daffodils beside the lake. The flowers were swaying here and there due to the heavy breeze, as if they were dancing happily. Second stanza is about how amazing the daffodils looked in the spring season. The author found those flowers like stars which shined and twinkled in the night sky. They were nodding their heads while dancing. Then Wordsworth expressed that these beautiful flowers stood in a never-ending line. He felt an illusion that he is watching all ten thousand of flowers altogether in a glance. Third stanza is the continuation of how along with the flowers, the water in the lake too moved, as if they were competing with each other in the dance. But the glee flowers won and the sparkling lake lost. Finding their playfulness, the author couldn't stop himself from joining their company. The author kept staring at both of them, wondering how his sad mood changed into a happy one. The daffodils and lake's dance bought him a wealth that he couldn't deny. The mesmerizing flowers gained a place in his heart he couldn't understand but felt. The last or the fourth stanza is narration of what pleasure the author had gained after watching the daffodils dancing that day. Whenever the author, Wordsworth felt sad or alone, the picture of dancing daffodils came to his mind and it was like he regained life's treasure. How valuable the solitude is! At the end, author's heart was content in joining the daffodils' dance.

The 'Daffodils' has a rhyming scheme throughout the poem. The rhyming scheme of the poem is 'ABABCC'. The first four lines of each stanza has a rhyming scheme of 'ABAB'. While the ending two lines, are the rhyming couplet. Each stanza makes use of 'Enjambment' which converts the poem into a continuous flow of expressions without a pause. First Stanza: AA - cloud, crowd; BB - hills, daffodils; CC - trees and breeze Second stanza: AA - shine, line; BB - way, bay; CC - glance, dance Third stanza: AA - they, gay; BB - glee, company; CC - thought, brought Fourth stanza: AA - lie, eye; BB - mood, solitude; CC - fills, daffodils

Meter is one of the most considerable elements when it comes to rhythm of a verse, Daffodils is in a form of sixain (a stanza of six lines), each line following an iambic tetrameter. The word iamb means unstressed-stressed syllables and tetra means four. Out of four syllables in a line, when an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable, is called iambic tetrameter. Let's see in the following example; you can either made stressed syllables in bold or can mark them (x) - unstressed and (/) - stressed. E.g. That floats on high o'er vale and hills 1) That floats | on high | o'er vales | and hills. x/| x/| x/| x/ | 2) That floats | on high | o'er vales | and hills.

Personification and Simile: I wander'd lonely as a cloud - The first line makes nice use of personification and simile. The poet assumes himself to be a cloud (simile) floating in the sky. When Wordsworth says in the second line 'I' (poet as a cloud) look down at the valleys and mountains and appreciate the daffodils; it's the personification, where an inanimate object (cloud) possesses the quality of a human enabling it to see the daffodils. Continuous as the stars that shine, And twinkle on the milky way - use of simile, daffodils looked like twinkling stars on the milky way, thus connecting nature with the universe. Tossing their heads in sprightly dance - use of personification, daffodils are tossing their heads like humans, expressing their emotion of happiness through dance (it gives liveliness to the poem). The waves beside them danced - Along with flowers, waves too are gifted with the human quality to dance. The words used in the poem like crowd, fluttering, dancing, stretched, heads, company, etc. are giving the flowers, daffodils human qualities. Hyperbole: The line "Ten thousand saw I at a glance" is an exaggeration and a hyperbole, describing the scene of ten thousand daffodils, all together. They stretched in never-ending line - the flowers are spread everywhere in a line, significance of vastness is explained. Alliteration: Alliteration is the repetition of similar sounds, is applied for the word 'h', in the words - high and hills. Metaphor: The daffodils represent 'nature'.

The poem paints images of lakes, fields, trees, stars in Ullswater. Wordsworth continuously praises the daffodils, comparing them to the Milky Way galaxy (in the second stanza), their dance (in the third stanza) and in the concluding stanza, dreams to join the daffodils in their dance. Use of colors i.e. white (cloud), green (hills), blue (lake), silver (stars) etc. enhance the picturesque. The poem starts in pessimism (author's loneliness) and ends in optimism (pleasure of watching daffodils). Thus, Wordsworth's imagination is a major factor of romanticism.