He derives his emotional nourishment from remembering the beauty and dancing of the flowers. The use of natural objects like the stars, plants (flower), the cloud, valley, hills, lakes, and the breeze/waves symbolizes that the nature is the only source of inspiration in the speaker’s life. Additionally, when the speaker is unhappy he only remembers the daffodils to alter his somber mood, the daffodils offer him company they cheer him up. The high number of daffodils the speaker observes grows naturally and they symbolize the rich environment or soils he lives in therefore, probably the source of his unhappiness is not economical but maybe social oriented. In addition, the speaker observes that the daffodils dance better than the waves, which confirms that when he is happy, he is automatically connected to the world.

Thus, the daffodils (flowers) are a symbol or source of happiness, which is the heart’s desire of the persona. Although he is lonely and sad, the observation of the flowers puts a smile on his face. The dancing prowess of the daffodils especially the movement of their heads symbolizes the happiness the persona is yearning to experience one day.

He calls the daffodils a ‘crowd’, which is a word only used to identify human beings (Cummings Para. In the fourth line of the first stanza, the persona identifies the daffodils at the lake, which symbolize love/happiness. Just like the clouds, he finds remedy in roaming around, with a sole aim of trying the luck of stumbling upon something to fill up his loneliness. Besides being under emotional turmoil, he has nobody to talk to, associate with, or assist him in solving his personal problems, which hurls him into depressed. Through the personification of the clouds, the speaker is able to express the extent or impact of his loneliness. In the second stanza, he compares the distance between the clouds, valleys, and hills, which means he is aware but not happy with his separation from the immediate world. Moreover, the cloud is naturally incompatible with the earth surface or human beings but the poet’s close identification with the cloud reveals his loneliness, isolation, and desolation from the world around him. The cloud is a symbol, which represents loneliness.

The persona likens himself with a cloud yet naturally, the cloud is a non-living object located many miles away from the earth. The title and the first stanza of the poem highlight the first symbol in the poem.

Wordsworth daffodils