To Daffodils Analysis

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain'd his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray'd together, we
Will go with you along.

We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away,
Like to the summer's rain;
Or as the pearls of morning's dew,
Ne'er to be found again.

.: Guide :.

Hi I am Nasu I love to play Cards And have no knowledge about this STUPID poem I am going mad.
-Nasu

| Posted on 2008-05-10 | by a guest

.: Guide :.

Hi I am Nasu I love to play Cards And have no knowledge about this STUPID poem I am going mad.
-Nasu

| Posted on 2008-05-10 | by a guest

.: the POET :.

The poems of Robert Herrick contain such freshness livelyness which can be feel whenever someone read it. And the musucality and rythm please yous ears with melody. His another unique quality is his poems are often addressed to someone or something as To Daffodils or To anthea etc.

| Posted on 2007-11-22 | by a guest

.: i disagree :.

I feel that the real objecive of this poem was not to insight an idea of youthful death. This is because the average daffodil life can be seen to be longer than a human life. If you refering to their flowering pattern then it can be seen that the Average flowering span of a daffodil can range from 6 weeks to 6 months. After blooming the daffodil plant rebuilds its bulb. This is something very complexed and would take much concentration to do, something that a young person would find difficulty in exercising.
From this i think its clear to say that the death of the daffodil does not represent a true loss in adolescent life. I feel that the poem is trying to exert a pure sorrow of death as opposed to the loss of young life. I feel that it is trying to challenge the real roots of human life. To explore the extent to which we take our lives with as much importance as others. The daffodil is a plant that germinates its seeds in order to create bulbs for new life. If we look at how we help to produce new life we can only see that our own ways of producing life only seeks to benefit us


| Posted on 2007-02-02 | by a guest

.: :.

I think this poem is about a person who just lost someone dear to their heart. The boy who died was young. I think he was young because daffodils are spring flowers that die young. The person could be at the funeral, and he is speaking to the boy. The setting is in spring because daffodils bloom in the spring. The poem is telling us that people die young too. We never know when our time will come. Our lives con be lost like that. Life is precious, and we must not take it forgranted. Another interpretation is that the young boy has died of cancer because a daffodil is the logo for cancer, but that might not be because Robert Herrick wrote this poem in the 1600s.

| Posted on 2005-06-06 | by Approved Guest