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Miracle on St. David’s Day by Gillian Clarke KEY NOTES

Miracle on St. David’s Day by Gillian Clarke KEY NOTES. Daffodils I wandered 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.

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Miracle on St. David’s Day by Gillian Clarke KEY NOTES

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  1. Miracle on St. David’s Day by Gillian Clarke KEY NOTES

  2. Daffodils I wandered lonely as a CloudThat 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 shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced, but theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:-A poet could not but be gayIn such a jocund company:I gazed-and gazed-but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought: For oft when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude,And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the Daffodils. by William Wordsworth

  3. MIRACLE • Suggests an incredible moment or • religious occurrence • ST. DAVID’S DAY • Patron saint of Wales; • Clarke is Welsh; • the poem ‘Daffodils’ is • what ‘awakens’ the man

  4. SUBJECT & THEME • First impressions – ‘it might be a country • house’ invite curiosity (‘might’). Mild shock • – really a mental hospital. Great • compassion for patients. Poet • recounting lived events and • moment moved her. • ‘Dumb’ man suddenly recites • Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodils’

  5. TONE/MOOD • Shock • Compassion • Memories • Calm

  6. VIEWPOINT • First-person • Clarke recounts her own • experience

  7. IMPORTANT QUOTES • ‘I am reading poetry to the insane’ • ‘cage of first March sun’ • ‘in her neat clothes the woman is absent’ • ‘A big, mild man is tenderly led • /to his chair’ • ‘I read to their presences, • absences’ • ‘He is hoarse but word-perfect’

  8. LANGUAGE & IMAGERY No rhyme – emphasises strangeness of event. ‘he is suddenly standing, silently’ – alliteration of soft ‘s’ sound echo the description before that he is ‘mild’, ‘rocks gently’.

  9. LANGUAGE & IMAGERY Sentence lengths enhance shock. Enjambment reflects leading image (stanzas 3-4). Colour imagery – yellows, light, silence, stillness. Cage – metaphor.

  10. About the poet: • Gillian Clarke was born in 1937 in Cardiff • She was brought up speaking only English and • learnt Welsh as an adult • Questions: • With which other poem in the anthology do you most closely associate this? • Give an example of a drive word which changes the tone of this poem. • What is the effect of the poem on you? Were you moved?

  11. COMPARISON CHECKLIST • Warning -> Still I Rise -> Mirror -> Not My Best Side • I Shall Paint… -> Warning • The Road Not Taken -> Warning -> Mid-Term Break • Miracle…-> Mid-Term Break -> The Barn

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