ANALYZE POETRY

Kesusastraan Britania
Modern
GROUP 8 :
Anisa Amaliya 041119023
Dedeh Yuliawati 041119024
Firda Putri Pratiwi 041119020
Daffodils Poetry by William Wordsworth
 Background
This contemporary British Poetry called "Daffodils" was written by
William Wordsworth. Wordsworth wrote this poem to capture the
feelings that surrounded him at that moment and talking about his
own state while in the natural environment.

In the poetry, the narrator William Wordsworth uses subject I and My.
Because he wants to tell his experience directly to the readers. There
are two set in this poem. The set is in a road near to a lake and a
daffodil field that are positioned lower than the road, and in a couch.
(1) I WANDER’D lonely as a cloud
(5) Beside the lake, beneath the trees
(19) For oft, when on my couch I lie
 SUBJECT

Theme Imagery

Nature and Memory Visual

“Williams Wordsworth writes about the beauty of “A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake,
nature. He described the clouds, the landscape, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the
and then to the long threads of wildflowers breeze.”
flowing in the fields.

Hence the theme "memory," This becomes clearer It is the imagery that related to the sense of
in verse 4 when he describes how often he lay vision or sight.
down, memories of that day flashed through him.
 Tone

Expressive: Thoughtful:
Emotive: Hyperbolic : And then my heart with  I gazed--and gazed--but 
When all at once I I wandered lonely as a pleasure fills, little thought
saw a crowd, cloud And dances with the What wealth the show to
A host, of golden That floats on high o'er  daffodils. me had brought:
 daffodils; vales and hills, The waves beside them
danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling
 waves in glee:
 FORM

STANZAS LINE BREAKS PAUSE SIGNIFY

This poetry consist 4 The termination of one line Creating a break of a breath
stanzas with six lines each, of poetry, and the beginning within a line.
for a total 24 lines. of a new line

RHYME &
PUNCTUATION RHYTHME
Comma, Colon, semicolon, The rhyme scheme is A-B-
Hyphen A-B-C-C which make a
poem sounds musical.
STYLE
This poem have Iambic
tetrameter style. Each line
has four iambs.
 SYMBOLICAL
Imagery
Terms like “lonely as a cloud”, “never-
ending line are descriptions enough to
make a reader imagine how the scenario
was.
Personification
He recalled that the flowers danced
and at a point added that they tossed
their heads. Even the wind did dance
but was nothing compared to the
flowers.
Metaphor
● We can find Wordsworth’s use of
metaphor in the third line of the last
paragraph, where the phrase
“inward eye” meant the memory of
the daffodils.
Simile
This is found in the first stanza of the
poem, “I wandered as a cloud”.
Wordsworth made a direct
comparison of himself to a single
cloud.
 FEELING

Any feelings of It explores the purity

sadness are pushed and deep human
away as the narrator emotions inspired by
describes a field of to natural landscape.
The central idea of the poem
discuss how the The intention of this
daffodils brighten the is the expression of the
poem is trying to
world, and the mood of remind us do not be an comfort and cheering the
the poet. author finds in the beauty of
ambitious human.
observing the daffodils.
SUMMARY