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    The document analyzes the poetic devices used in William Wordsworth's poem "Daffodils." It discusses his use of simile, metaphor, hyperbole, imagery, personification, alliteration, and provides the themes of the poem as nature being a source of eternal joy and its healing powers. It also notes that the title aptly refers to the focus on daffodils and that the poem is written in a lyrical style using simple language in the first person across four stanzas of six lines each with a consistent rhyme scheme.

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    6. DAFFODILS POETIC DEVICES

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    DAFFODILS – POETIC DEVICES

    In the poem ‘Daffodils’ or ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ the poet has used several figures of
    speech to give it a rhetorical effect. Those are elaborated below.

    Simile
    Simile is a direct comparison between two different things using ‘as’ or ‘like’.
    I wandered lonely as a cloud
    In the above line, the poet has compared himself to a cloud using ‘as’. This is an example of
    simile.
    Continuous as the stars that shine
    …margin of a bay
    In the above extract the poet has compared the flowers with the shining stars on the Milky Way.

    Metaphor:
    Wordsworth has used one metaphor in this poem in the last stanza as “They flash upon that
    inward eye.” Here “inward eye” represents the sweet memory of daffodils

    Hyperbole :
    Hyperbole is an exaggerated statement.
    When all at once I saw a crowd,
    Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
    In the two examples above, the poet has used ‘crowd’ and ‘ten thousand’ to mean a lot of
    daffodils. But he must not have counted them there at a glance. This is an obvious exaggeration.
    They stretched in never-ending line
    Yes, the flowers were stretched in a vast area, but that is surely not ‘never-ending’. The poet has
    made an overstatement here.

    Imagery:
    The use of imagery makes the reader visualize the writer’s feelings and emotions. Wordsworth
    has used images appealing to the sense of sight such as “lonely as a cloud”, “ a crowd”, “never-
    ending line”, ”milky way” and “jocund company.” These descriptions help the reader to
    imagine or feel the same joy felt by the speaker

    Personification :
    The poet has attributed human characteristics to the daffodils (non-human objects) in this poem.
    Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
    Tossing their heads in sprightly dance
    Out-did the sparkling waves in glee
    All the above lines are personification of the flowers.
    The waves beside them danced;
    Wordsworth has personified the waves in this line.

    Alliteration :
    Alliteration is the repetition of consonant sound at the beginning or in stressed syllables of
    nearby words.
    Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
    And dances with the daffodils
    The repetition of the sounds ‘b’ and ‘d’ in above lines are examples of alliteration.

    THEME
    Nature – a source of eternal joy
    Nature – its healing powers.

    TITLE
    It is apt because the entire poem revolves around the effect the sight of the daffodils has on the
    poet.

    STYLE
    The poem is a lyric. It is not complex. It gives expression to a single emotion or feeling of joy
    in nature.
    Written in simple everyday language
    Written in 1st person
    There are 4 stanzas of six lines each
    The rhyme scheme followed is constant - ‘ababcc

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