The Daffodil is about how the poet and writer of the poem William Wordsworth finds Beauty and life
in the Daffodils he sees one day when he is out walking . He describes them ‘Tossing their heads in Sprightly dance’
by the margins of the bay. The Daffodil in the poem is therefore personified, which means it is given human qualities.
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The Daffodils by William Wordsworth, describes how the flowers dance: ‘ Tossing their heads in Sprightly Dance’ and can be used for show performances. In Wales they use the symbol of the Daffodil they call Flodau in their language, to form part of a flower dance, for a show called the Eisteddfod, as you see in this picture link:
http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/media/1/1/7/4/4/dawns-flodau-2009.jpg
They celebrate this on St David’s Day, March the 1st, that is what the story ‘St David of Wales’ is a about, also on Storynory.com
http://storynory.com/2009/02/09/st-david-patron-saint-of-wales/
But there are also Daffodils in England, which is how Wordsworth came to write about them, when he sees ten thousand of them by the sea.
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]]>It is great to hear Storynory poems
are used in schools. Listening and reading all kinds of poetry
will improve your understanding of the poem
See PCR’s ‘The Art of Reading Poetry Out Loud’ and the latest
‘Romanticism and the Daffodils’ for furter insight into Wordsworths poetry.
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Cardimond and Aubin
BTW We think your devotion to Beatrice is so so romantic it makes us cry:)
Thank you, I really enjoyed reading Daffy-Down-Dilly, it is a wonderful poem and a good counterpart to Wordsworth’s The Daffodills. I really like A. A. Miline as a poet and learnt some of his poem’s when I was younger, including ‘When we were Six’. The Metaphor’s of the ”’yellow sunbonnet” and ”greenest gown” are lovely. There will be more sharing on poetry and language to come on Storynory.
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