Thursday, February 14, 2013

Comments open for First years( 1st semi) for the poems Daffodils by Wordsworth & To Daffodils by Robert Herrick.



5 comments:

  1. The poem "Daffodils" is about a lonely and sad man. the man finds joy and happiness in the process of watching the bright dancing golden daffodils. The way the author describes the daffodils are all adjectives of happiness. The man also realizes while watching the daffodils that the only real happiness that you can get, comes from the natural world and cannot be achieved by wealth. The Man finds happiness at home alone when he is dreaming because dreaming is the greatest happiness in being alone. This happines fills the void in the man's heart, and he is as happy as the daffodils.

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  2. The poem shows the sad tone or the poet is so sad because he knows that daffidols life is so short.he gives by the way a fact that our life is really o short in some sense,so if you live for a hundred years till you feel as a five minuts.and the poet asks the affidols to stay a life though he knows that its will not stay because death will end all things in life.the life is beautiful like daffidols and the poet campare his life with the daffidols because both of them have short life.we know everything on earth is asubject to death so dont be scant.

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  3. ''to daffodils'' nature is the medicine of lonely feelings....this is the theme of poem...the man knows daffodils life so short...but he also realizes while watching the daffodils that only real happiness that we can get it from the nature.

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  4. I.M.Rafi
    The "Daffodils" by William Wordsworth is a nature poem. He ,while sitting in loneliness, mentally escaped taken aback in the air. He wandered here and there as a single cloud aimlessly when suddenly he meets a long line of daffodils in thousands and thousands. This unexpected discovery of daffodils in such large numbers was a host to him. A host is someone who receives his guests and treats him. Here the daffodils were a host and welcomed him and relieved him of his loneliness.

    He compared the activities of the daffodils to those of humans. They fluttered and danced and also tossed their heads just like the dancing children.At some point he poses a rhetorical question " what wealth the show to me had brought?" The answer is in the last stanza. "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." Whenever he in pensive mood, the memories of his experience of discovering the daffodils in great numbers "flash upon" in his inward eye and dispelled his lonely feelings.

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  5. "To Daffodils" by Robert Herrick is a terse lyrical poem,the main theme of which is the pithiness of life. He addresses the daffodils "fair daffodils" as he calls his dear friends, giving them human qualities. He is in a tear-jerking mood to see them dry away so soon even before the morning sun reaches the zenith. He compares the short life span of daffodils to the time between the morning and the noon. The total poem poem is an elegy that talks of death at any expected time. He asks them to "stay" until the end of the day, The repetition of the word "stay" is suggestive of the truth that the life is being lived very fast, to meet its decay very soon.
    He symbolically refer to the youth with "daffodils". Youth are fearless,desperate and ambitious. Due to their various ghastly and grisly activities, they are unlikely to live their full life, but die sooner than expected. The poet says" We weep to see you/Haste away so soon" This is a warning to the young people to live their life fully as they go to brothels and military where they get killed sooner through STDs or bullets.

    In the second dectet, he empathizes himself in the flowers' position and realizes that humans also have a very short life. "We have as short time to stay, as you" and "we have as shot a spring" He uses some metaphors like "Haste away" "spring" "Summer's rain" "pearls of morning dews" He, due to the sudden realization of his approaching death, sees himself and all humans as these impermanent nature's beauty.

    To bring out his theme of short and succinct nature of life, he uses many monosyllable words and short sentences. It is not written in a regular metrical pattern or in regular rhythmic style. All these brokenness and jerkiness add to the central idea of the poet. As it has a universal truth of nippy meeting with the fate, it is a beautiful poem,

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