1. Wordsworth : “ DAFFODILS”
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.

2. Wandered may suggest: The isolation and alienation of the poet
it emphasize his loneliness, and how he feels no connection with anyone around him
That indicates that he didn't have a destination or purpose , he was just wandering about, almost as if in search of a friend

3. A simile: “ as a cloud”
Floating lonely as a cloud symbolizes a separation from the natural world
he states that he "floats on high o'er vales and hills." ,he is far above the hills and vales, not connected to them.  He is apart and separate, and not included.
But also the union between man and nature
Idea of freedom
The habit to dream/ imagination

4. “When all at once I saw ….golden daffodils”
he re-establishes a connection with nature as he moves through the field of daffodils
a crowd, a host….. Fluttering and dancing
The daffodils are alive and personified endowed with a life and a soul of their own
They are able to feel joy and to transmit it
golden…..
Giving them a higher connototion
“ A CERTAIN COLOURING OF IMAGINATION”

5. “ A CERTAIN COLOURING OF IMAGINATION”
“ ordinary things should be presented to the mind in an unusual way”

6. “Beside the lake, beneath the trees,”
The daffodils are not described, but the poet puts them in relationship to nature

7. 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.

8. as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way,
Earth and heaven are united in the beauty of the daffodils
No more solitude, but a deep union with nature

9. The waves beside them danced; but they   Outdid 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:

10. A poet could not but be gay,
Only a poet can find himself in a state of creative joy
the importance of the poet's role in society during the Romanticism period.  Romantics such as believed it was the poet's responsibility to demonstrate humanity's connection to nature and relay the message to society.

11. I gazed—and gazed—…
This repetition conveys the impression of the poet breathless, unable to move in front of such a beauty
…but little thought
The thought came later
wealth
= happiness with the contact with nature. This joy is now the opposite of the loneliness in the first stanza, his life is awakened to new life by the daffodils

12. 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

13. when on my couch I lie
When the poet sees the daffodils he little tought what they meant to him.
The thought came later, remembering the daffodils and using imagination
Only Imagination enables man to enter into and give life and significance to the world
When at home, in a pensive mood, remembering the sensations felt, you are able to feel emotions

14. LANGUAGE “ Language really used by men”
In the first 3 stanzas he uses the past simple, while in the last one he uses the Present Simple.
The change of tenses underlines the gap between the past experience and its remembrance in the poet’s ecstatic vision

15. WHAT IS POETRY?
The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings = emotions
It comes from “ emotions recollected in tranquillity”