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1) Write the stanza you are describing. Give a detailed explanation of what happens in each stanza; describe the natural landscape and how this influences the poet's mood or viceversa.

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FIRST STANZA: 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.
The poet was walking  in nature,  and felt alone like a cloud that was floating over high vales and hills. This initial state of sad loneliness and melancholy is interrupeted by the view of the golden daffodils, which made the poet stop in wonder.
The dafffodils were streching in a line around the bay of a lake, bordered by the water on one side and trees on the other. The poet imagines that they were dancing as if they were human.

Poet's mood:
The poet felt isolated  from the earth and was looking for refuge in nature. He felt isolated and depressed; his mood was melancholic and detached.
Nature influences his sensations and emotions. In fact, nature is perceived by him like a mother that conforts man in sorrow.
Suddenly the poet is attracted by a group of daffodils under some trees. He first felt amazed and fascinated by this syght. He then started to admired them because they are joyful and in harmony with the universe.

Figures of speech: In the first stanza the poet's sensorial experience is presented and it is conveyed through some powerful images like the cloud over the valley; the flowers dancing in the breeze.
The poet is speaking in the I-form and all verbs are in past tense.
He uses several figures of speech, like the SIMILY in the first line between the poet and a cloud. Here poet and nature swap their roles. They are both lonely and detached from the earth. While the cloud is isolated in the sky, the poet is instead lost in his thoughts and feels different from other human beings of the terrestrial world.

Later the flowers are introduced through a PERSONIFICATION: they are described like a ''crowd'' and thus compared to a group of people, showing that in Wordsworth's view the flowers are alive. They are animated by the spirit of the universe and are dancing in joy because they are in harmony with Nature.

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The third stanza:

What were the surroundings like?

The poet was walking surrounded by nature. He was near a lake when he saw a great number of daffodils dancing and waving at the wind. This created a joyful atmosphere.

The daffodils were in a sort of dancing competition with the waves, but the flowers were much better than the water crests because they created a heavenly scene. In such an atmosphere the poet could feel different kinds of feelings. Certainly he felt happy but at the same time he was not aware of what exactly he was feeling. He was fascinated by the beauty of the flowers.

The poet can feel all this with greater intensity than ordinary men because he has greater sensibility, which lets him understand that there is more beyond what we can see in the physical world.

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SECOND STANZA:

The poet says that he saw ten thousand of daffodils? Is that possible?

No, this is possible only because of the poet's imagination! The poet is using here a hyperbole to convey his amazement in front of the daffodils.

It's quite improbable that there were so many flowers. First of all because it's almost impossible to find ten thousand of daffodils in the same place in nature and then because most of the daffodils are usually grown in gardens. Also even if there were so many daffodils, he couldn't have counted them all.

The poet is using this figure of speech to emphasise the feelings of wonder and joy that he felt when he first saw the flowers.

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General analysis:

In the first three stanzas the poet uses the past tense. State what tense appears in the last lines and what its function is.

In the first three stanzas the poet describes a past event, so he uses the past tense. In the last stanza he speaks instead of a present event. The use of all present tenses in the last lines creates a contrast between what he felt when he first saw the daffodils and what he is feeling now that he is alone in his study on remembering those feelings.

He stresses the different points of view from which he has had these experiences. While in the beginning, the vision of the daffodils interrupted his sad loneliness, in the last stanza the poet can eventually dance with the flowers, meaning that he now feels in harmony with them. This generates an intense feeling of happiness, so that his heart and his sense are in tune with the same music of the flowers and therefore with Nature.

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The fourth stanza:

In the fourth stanza the poet is alone in his studio and he's lying on his couch. This solitude is completely different from his initial loneliness at the beginning of the poem.

While in the first stanza the poet was alone both physically and emotionally, once in his study he is alone physically but his heart is dancing with the daffodils. He is relaxed and in a pensive mood. He's thinking about the beauty of daffodils, and his memories generate in him a deep sense of joy and happiness.

While the poet remembers this image, he uses his imagination and can go beyond the material world to see what is beyond exterior life. Now his heart is dancing with the daffodils and it is in harmony with nature. According to the pantheistic vision, God is in nature so the poet can now feel in harmony with God. This experience demonstrates that the poet has higher sensibility, which enables him to perceive the reality more intensely than other people.

In this poem this idea is conveyed by the powerful image of the poet's inward eye, which is a symbol of the poet's imagination. It allows Wordsworth to activate his imagination to remember the vision of the daffodils, from which poetic inspiration takes origin.

General Analysis:

The poem is composed of four stanzas in rhyming couples ab-ab-cc. The second and the third stanzas convey Wordsworth's pantheistic vision. He in fact believed that man and Nature are inseparable because God is in both.

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GENERAL ANALYSIS:

Bearing in mind what Wordsworth said in his Preface to Lyrical Ballads about the process of poetic composition, explain how it applies to this poem.

The Preface to Lyrical Ballads is the Manifesto of English Romanticism. In Wordsworth's view, a poet can go through a sensory experience, which he perceives more intensively of other men thanks to his sensitivity. This first emotion is then recollected in tranquillity, and gives origin to a second emotion., which is the true source of inspiration for writing poetry.

For this reason, Wordsworth believed that poetry should deal with everyday situations that become special thanks to the poet's imagination. In the poem of the Daffodils, Wordsworth described what he initially perceived at the view of the flowers. In the last stanza he explains how from that initial emotion, thanks to his inward eye, he could finally understand the intensity of the experience and feel in harmony with the dancing flowers.

In Wordsworth's opinion the poetic language should be simple. The object mentioned in the poem have in fact ordinary names like "waves","lake","stars".

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GENERAL ANALYSIS Wordsworth's quotation: -''Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.'' What poetic device does the poet use to introduce the daffodils in the first stanza? In the first stanza the poet introduces the image of the daffodils through a personification by calling them a''crowd''. The poet is comparing a group of flowers to a crowd of people. We can understand it also because the daffodils are making human actions like ''dancing" and "tossing their heads in the breeze"