All these references of dancing and tossing heads are parts of his personification of the flowers.īy starting this stanza with ‘For’, the poet continues his reasoning for saying that the flowers had brought him ‘wealth’.
So, he found everything around him joyful. Actually the poet was amazed at the beauty of the flowers. The poet also says that the daffodils were tossing their heads as if they were dancing in happiness. This type of exaggeration is called hyperbole (exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally). That indicates that the poet has never seen so many daffodils at once.
Wordsworth exaggerates the number of flowers by saying “Ten thousand saw I at a glance”. Here ‘continuous’ and ‘never-ending’ may also suggest that the flowers left an everlasting impact on him. That is why he uses the phrase “never-ending line”. The flowers were visible as far as the poet could see along the shore-line of a bay. This comparison with the stars may have a greater implication in indicating that the flowers are heavenly as the stars. Moreover, the daffodils were shining (as they were golden in colour) and twinkling (as they were fluttering in the breeze) as the stars. They stretched in a continuous line just like the stars in a galaxy like the Milky Way. So we get an overall idea of the landscape which includes the valleys and hills, the lake, the trees, the flowers beneath them and the breezy atmosphere. There is also an indication that it was a breezy day. In the last line, the poet personifies the flowers by saying that they were fluttering (like birds or butterflies) and dancing (like human beings). He also uses the expressions like ‘crowd’ and ‘host’ to mean that he saw a large area covered with a whole lot of daffodils. This is an example of simile (Simile is a figure of speech where two things are compared using ‘as’ or ‘like’. The poet directly compares himself to a cloud, as he was wandering without aim, just like the clouds. The flowers were ‘fluttering and dancing’ in the breeze. At that time, suddenly he came across a large number of golden daffodils beside the lake and under the trees. The poet was travelling aimlessly just like a cloud over the hills and valleys of the mountainous Lake District in England. That floats on high o’er vales and hills,įluttering and dancing in the breeze.
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