Creativity and inspiration is definitely enlightened by William Wordsworth’s poems. When sometimes not in an overly positive mood and in need of moment of gentle reflection, flowers do brighten a day and may prompt a smile.
Daffodils are happy flowers and together in large numbers really do make the heart sing.
Wordsworth’s description almost makes reading it a physical experience, offering meditation, quietness and joy to those who sense a level of synergy with his descriptions of Nature and life itself.
‘I wondered lonely as a cloud’ is one of my favourite poems.
The scene comes to life in the mind’s eye. Daffodils and their reflections, on the surface of a lake. Their heads swaying side by side.
William Wordsworth 1770 – 1850.
Selected words from the poem ‘I wondered lonely as a cloud’
(Composed 1804. Published 1807)
The final verse:
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For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant an in pensive mood,
They flash upon the inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
But my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils.
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Wordsworth had to describe his experience in a poem. He was there. He witnessed such joy. The complete poem frees the spirit ‘…….floating high over vales an hills’. Reading the complete poem will free the senses and experience scene; ‘beside the lake, beneath the trees hovering and dancing in the breeze’.
Read the complete poem and close eyes.
Any fans of Wordsworth out there?
