This document provides an analysis of the poem "To Daffodils" by Robert Herrick. It discusses that Herrick was an Anglican priest and published his poetry collection Hesperides in 1648. The poem compares the short life of daffodils to humans, using the flowers as a symbol of our own temporary existence. It explores the central theme of carpe diem, or seizing the day, as nothing lasts forever, whether the flowers or our lives. Nature is presented as always changing and transitory.

1. To Daffodils
Dr. Lt. Hardeepsinh Ranjitsinh Gohil
Gujarat Commerce College

2. Daffodils

3. Robert Herrick
• An Anglican Priest, Cavalier Poet.
• An admirer of Ben Jonson
• Obedient to the king
• In 1648 he published his only book of
poem titled Hesperides. The Famous lines
of his poem run as,(Carpe Diem)
• “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying.
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.

4. The Poem.I
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.

5. The Poem.II
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.

6. The Theme of the Poem.
• The central theme :- Time.
• Carpe Diem :- Latin word, stands for the
idea - Seize the day!
• The lines from the poem such as,
We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meetdecay,
As you, or anything.

7. The Role of the Nature In The
Poem.
• In nature every thing is transitory.
• Be it is the object of the nature or lives of
human beings.
• The flower daffodil used as a symbol of
momentary existence of natural objects.
• The flowers have been used as the
analogy of temporariness of our existence.
• Our beautiful life is also like, Daffodils
withering at every moment.

8. THANK YOU.