William Wordsworth And The Daffodils Analysis

William Wordsworth and the Daffodils (Finalizing)

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility” by William Wordsworth (Brainy Quotes). In the past poetry was not natural and was not composed out of inner feelings in fact, poetry was only allowed to be published if it was very splendid, strict, noble, idealized, and elevated constructed to only emphasize the upper class citizens. But obviously such format never continued and vanished because as we can see in our current time poetry had changed from being artificial and overly sophisticated to more emotionally accessible and undemanding. What caused the massive change in the history of poetry was the Romantic Movement

Yes, the two forms express the same experience however; the idea of authorship in that period was traditionally conditioned by both the writer’s genres and gender and only male poets were permitted and acknowledged as ‘romantic’ than female prose writers. As both accounts refer to the same experience of seeing a mass of Daffodils under the trees by the lake, yet, the journal is full of everyday detailed information and observations as it was used more to register personal experiences and feelings that is not to be published. While on the other hand, the poem is meant to be publicized since it is a public forum (Watson, 19-21). Even though both William and Dorothy shared the same “Daffodils” experience; yet William’s solitary presentation of the poem is justified because William’s poems are targeted to a wide range of readers therefore, adding character and personality is crucial to the poetry style. In the journal Dorothy uses nature itself to represent the beauty of the moment, this correlates with the style of the time, as female writers focused on more detailed images of nature, whereas male writers would use lyrical ballad forms, with romanticized imagery of nature. This is the reason why William’s use of the first person personal pronoun is very effective in the poem and the exclusion of Dorothy’s presence is suitable to the poem shape (Dorothy and William Wordsworth Analysis). Moreover, Dorothy uses longer and more difficult sentences for example: ‘I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake, they looked so gay