Daffodils

 I don’t know exactly how and when my liking for poetry began. The seed of my love for Wordsworth and Byron must have been sowed during my collegiatedays.“The Daffodils” is one of the best poems that Ms Hue has introduced to us.Three years passed, but the poem has stayed in my mind since the morning sherecited it in our English Literature class. It has made a great impression upon me.How regretful it would be if this poem were not recommended to to the poetry buff.“The Daffodils” known as “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” is a famous poem written in 1804 by William Wordsworth. Daffodils is one of the most popular  poems of the Romantic Age, unfolding the poet’s excitement, love and praise for afield blossoming with daffodils. It was inspired by an April 15, 1802 event, inwhich Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy, came across a “long belt” of daffodilson a walk near Ullswater Lake in England. This poem was first published in 1807,and a revised version was released in 1815.

 I wander’d lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hillsWhen 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 glanceTossing their heads in sprightly dance.The waves beside them danced, but theyOut-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 eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude! And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.

Just reading the first verses, we can feel the time and space William wrote TheDaffodils. The inspiration for this poem may have been drawn from a walk he took with his sister Dorothy around Lake Ullswater.“I...