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What were the surroundings like?

The surroundings were some trees and a lake; the waves of the lake also danced. The lake is trying to dance like the flowers. The day is windy enough to create waves on the lake and to make the flowers pop up and down in concert.

The poet describes the scene in which there is a sort of dance competition between the waves of the lake and the daffodils. The flowers are more joyful than the waves in their dance and they make the poet gay.

The experience of the poet is not limited to the immediate pleasure of intellectual delight in the scene observed. He realized the full extent of the wealth the scene has given him in a spiritual way and it stays with him always as an inspiration .

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Emanuele, Francesca B, Maria Clara, Giulia C

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Emanuele, Francesca B, Maria Clara, Giulia C

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The wordcloud below contains 17 words in jumbled order. Here is the exact quotation that we have formed:

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of poerfulfeelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility!

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Lila, Beatrice, Ornela, Giovanna, Sara C.

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Lila, Beatrice, Ornela, Giovanna, Sara C.

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In the first stanza the poet starts by saying that he was wandering lonely as a cloud." Through this simile the poet introduces his first sight of the daffodils.

The poet continues with a personification of the daffodils, for example when he says that there was "a crowd, a host of golden daffodils, fluttering and dancing in the breeze."

These poetic devices give us the impression that the flowers are alive. It sounds like Wordsworth is describing a host of angels. In fact, they are seen not only as flowers. This is emphasized by the use of the adjective "golden", instead of simply yellow.

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The images that impressed us the most were the following:

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The images that impressed us the most were the following:

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The image of the poet wandering lonely as a cloud

The daffodils fluttering and dancing in the breeze

The daffodils looking like the stars that twinkle in the Milky Way

The waves in the nearby lake trying to compete in the dance

The inward eye in the last stanza, through which the poet can remember his past experience and - by adding a "certainly colouring of the imagination" - can finally create poetry.

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WHAT IS THE RESULT OF THIS EXPERIENCE?

At the beginning the poet was alone and lost in his own thoughts about his life. He was wandering in the countryside without any specific destination, when, at once glance, he saw a crowd of golden daffodils. They were similar to stars that twinkle and shine in the Milky Way. The poet admired the gorgeous flowers and he felt happier. He was moved by the beauty of the flowers but could not fully understand the value of this experience.

In the last stanza the setting is completely different and the verbs used are in the present tense. Now the poet is at home on his sofa. He remembers now the image of the daffodils through a sort of "third eye" which represents his soul and his imagination. Being a poet, he is a man of greater sensibility and imagination. Through the memory of the daffodils and the stronger emotion evoked by their view, his soul becomes different. It starts to dance with the daffodils and with the whole universe around it. Although the poet is still at home, when he remembers the daffodils he feels in harmony with the whole nature.

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Emanuele, Francesca B, Maria Clara, Giulia C.

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Emanuele, Francesca B, Maria Clara, Giulia C.

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Before analysing the poem, most of us gave a positive response to it.

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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 fourth stanza the poet uses the verbs in the present tense because he tells us about an action which is happening in the present and that refers to the process of poetic composition. He is fact explaining how his past memory of the daffodils has given birth to a new emotion and to poetry.

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Lila, Ornela, Beatrice, Giovanna, Sara C.

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Lila, Ornela, Beatrice, Giovanna, Sara C.

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WHERE WERE THE FLOWERS? WHAT DID THE POET ASSOCIATE THEM WITH?

In the second stanza, the poet tells us that he saw a crowd of daffodils and that it was impossible to count them. He wrote that he had seen "ten thousand" of them just to give us an idea of how many they were, not because he could really count them. He found them under the trees and near a lake

The poet associated the flowers with the stars that twinkle and shine in the Milky Way. Here he used a hyperbole to emphasize the huge number of daffodils, but also to stress the perfect harmony existing between them and the universe.

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Emanuele, Francesca ,  Maria Clara, Giulia C.

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Emanuele, Francesca ,  Maria Clara, Giulia C.

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What kind of state does the poet describe in the fourth stanza?

The poet is now at home and, lying on his coach, he is in a pensive mood. He is thinking about the vision of the flowers that changed his emotional state, so he becomes joyful and gay.

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

In the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth explains the process of poetic composition.

Poetry should deal with everyday situations or incidents with ordinary people. The language should be simple and the poem must be inspired by a sensory experience whose emotions should be recollected in tranquillity to make poetry.

In the first stanza the speaker remembers the past experience which took place during a walk in the country. The poet remembers his past feelings and emotions at the view of the daffodils. He describes the joy he felt but also says that at that time he could not fully understand the real value of the experience.

Only in the last stanza, when the poet lies on his sofa, he remembers the past experience and he feels in harmony with nature. This makes the poet feel in harmony with the daffodils, so that bis heart fills with pleasure and dances with the daffodils

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