William Wordsworth's "Daffodils" provides young poets with an opportunity to examine how a poet can use powerful images and poetic devices to create vivid pictures in the minds of readers.

Concepts

literary devices, poetic devices, poetic elements, william wordsworth

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english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the worksheet to model how to read a poem or to assess understanding of poetic devices
• Locate and project images of fields of daffodils

Classroom Considerations

• The exercise assumes learners are familiar with the such literary devices as assonance, alliteration, personification, simile, metaphor, mood, tone, and rhyme scheme

Pros

• Key vocabulary and poetic devices are identified

Cons

• Additional scaffolding would be required for learners to make the connection between identifying the poetic devices and recognizing how these elements are used by the poet to create a word picture