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Title: Miracle on St' Davids Day


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Miracle on St. Davids Day by Gillian Clarke KEY
NOTES
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  • 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 daffodilsBeside 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 bayTen 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 companyI 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. DAVIDS 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
  • Wordsworths 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?

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