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To Daffodils

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This poem by Robert Herrick uses personification and imagery to compare the short lifespan of daffodils to humans. The speaker asks the daffodils to stay until evening so they can pray together before the flowers disappear, just as humans have but a short time on Earth. Through metaphors, similes and other literary devices, the poem reflects on the fleeting nature of both daffodils and human lives.

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Refat Ara Jyoti Subrina Islam Khadija Islam Iffat Jahan
1 Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attain'd his noon. Robert Herrick To Daffodils Personification Alliteration Personification Personification Metaphor Symbol
Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. Personification Symbol Repetition Imagery
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. Metaphor Simile Assonance
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. Alliteration Simile Assonance
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To Daffodils

  • 2. Refat Ara Jyoti Subrina Islam Khadija Islam Iffat Jahan
  • 3. 1 Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attain'd his noon. Robert Herrick To Daffodils Personification Alliteration Personification Personification Metaphor Symbol
  • 4. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the evensong; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. Personification Symbol Repetition Imagery
  • 5. 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. Metaphor Simile Assonance
  • 6. 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. Alliteration Simile Assonance