analaysis of this poem
2006-11-22 09:54:59 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The daffodil is a spring flower which fades away all to soon after blooming. The poet is perhaps exaggerating this, as they do last a few days, but he is expressing his anguish that the daffodils are with him so short a time and appear to be in a hurry to go. It is so early, he tells them: not yet noon. He urges them to stay until evening at least, and as though he were addressing human beings suggest that they attend Evensong together. Then, sadly, he muses that after they have prayed together he could depart along with the daffodils. His life is short too: its scale is very similar to that of the daffodils and and will be over very soon. He too is destined to wither away soon and it all comes down to scale: the human life, the life span of the daffodil, the dew drops and drops of summer rain which vanish so quickly.
The theme of the brevity of life, the sun's course and the ethereal nature of flowers is a preoccupation of Robert Herries. In another famous poem he urges the reader to gather rosebuds while it is still possible. Life is short and to be used to the full.
2006-11-22 10:37:01 · answer #1 · answered by Doethineb 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2006-11-25 09:00:33 · answer #2 · answered by arfa54321 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋