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 lieIn vacant an in pensive mood,They flash upon the inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;But my heart with pleasure fillsAnd 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?