The imagery in simple wording and couple of similes made it one of the best poems of romantic era. Being a lover of nature, Poet reveals feelings of a scene of huge number of daffodils by a lake that made him surprised. William Wordsworth was a frequent visitor to the Ullswater area, and wrote three poems about Aira Force, the most well known being ‘ The Somnambulist’ – an ancient tale of knightly love and death, of which the last verse seems to catch the spirit of Aira Force. Daffodils is one of the most famous poems of Romantic Movement written by William Wordsworth. That floats on high o’er vales and hills, The Bays were stormy, and we heard the waves at different distances and in the middle of the water like the sea’.ĭorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journal – Thursday 15 April 1802.Īlthough it is not recorded, it is almost certain that this gave William the inspiration to write his most famous poem, ‘Daffodils’. When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils Beside the lake, beneath the trees. There was here and there a little knot and a few stragglers a few yards higher up but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity and unity and life of that one busy highway. Complete text of the poem by William Wordsworth. This wind blew directly over the lake to them. Wordsworth was born in the Lake District of northern England, the second of five children of a modestly prosperous estate manager. That floats on high oer 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 beginning, the poet describes himself as a cloud that floats over the hills, underlining the fact of his seclusion though he was not lonely in reality. I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake, they looked so gay ever dancing ever changing. The Daffodils by William Wordsworth Click on the Video to listen Summary and Dictation On April 15, 1802, Wordsworth and his sister went to Eusermere to visit their relations. But as we went along there were more and more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road. We fancied that the lake had floated the seed ashore and that the little colony had so sprung up. ‘When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park, we saw a few daffodils close to the water side.
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