"Daffodils" (1804)

Read the poem,
then read the blog.


I WANDER'D lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretch'd in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed -- and gazed -- but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

By William Wordsworth (1770-1850).

Today in Class

There was a new hand-out detailing what to do for the Poetic Themes assignment.
Bottom line: re-do the "Cracking the Poem" you got back yesterday, write down the THEME of your poem for tomorrow (group work), and know that you will be writing a paragraph of theme analysis on your poem.

To recap:
Theme work tomorrow
Poetry Portfolio due on Friday
Vocab Unit 9 due on Monday
Poetic Themes work (typed, revised "Cracking" analysis plus theme paragraph)due on
Tuesday.

Then we turn full steam ahead to To Kill A Mockingbird starting on Tuesday. By then you should have read the first six chapters.