The 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.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.                             

 

 

Wordsworth revised the poem in 1815. He replaced "dancing" with "golden"; "along" with "beside"; and "ten thousand" with "fluttering and". He then added a stanza between the first and second, and changed "laughing" to "jocund". The last stanza was left untouched.
The plot of the poem is simple. In the 1815 revision, Wordsworth described it as "rather an elementary feeling and simple impression (approaching to the nature of an ocular spectrum) upon the imaginative faculty, rather than an exertion of it...

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.

Pamela Wolfe notes "The permanence of stars as compared with flowers emphasizes the permanence of memory for the poet.

Continuous as the stars that shine

and twinkle on the Milky Way,

They stretched in never-ending line

along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A poet could not but be gay,

in such a jocund company:

I gazed—and gazed—but little thought

what wealth the show to me had brought:

Andrew Motion notes that the final verse replicates in the minds of its readers the very experience it describes.

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

 Autumn in Kashmir

 

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” 

 

 A striking mix of sunflowers in warm shades of orange, yellow, bronze and red. Multi-branched plants provide dramatic contrast as a tall border in flower and Mughal gardens.

In autumn, the leaves start to change color. They change to red, yellow, and brown.
In autumn, the leaves start to fall off of the trees. That is why autumn is also called the fall.
In autumn, the weather starts to get cooler. We start to wear long sleeved shirts, long pants, and sweaters.
School starts in autumn. We see children getting on yellow busses and going to school.
Trees start to spread their seeds in autumn. Acorns are the seeds for oak trees.
Pine trees have pinecones for seeds. They fall off of the trees in autumn so new trees can start to grow in the spring

Pearls of Kashmir

 

 

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  Wednesday,10 December  2014
   

  
  

  “Agar firdous baroye zameen ast, hami asto, hami asto hami ast” –    Amir-e-Khusru Dehluvi
  

  

  
  

   

   

  (If there is paradise on earth, It is here, it is here, it is here)

  
  

  It’s true – Kashmir is really beautiful.

  It is the sheer excitement of landing in Kashmir – a place where I always feel peace, The people over h are so warm. One thing about them I love the most is their love for Kashmir. They are proud to be Kashmiri and can never get over the beauty of Kashmir.The people of Kashmir are popularly known as Kashmiris. Most of the Kashmiris are Muslims
                    Kashmiris love dance and music, and marriages, festivals and other occasions provide them the opportunities to enjoy themselves

   

  Freedom in chains

   

   

  

   

  Hazrat Umer Farooq says,” Man was born free, but why you have kept him in chains of slavery?” Freedom has been the watchword and rallying point in Kashmir for many decades. Certainly it is not everybody’s privilege to sing the song of freedom. Only those hearts throb for it that actually see the claws of oppression in a human society and have courage to speak for the welfare of mankind. A freedom loving heart is full of affection for humanity and is always ready to take risks for the freedom of the suffering people.
  The people of Kashmir have been facing traumatic conditions under despots for centuries

  
  
  

  

  
  
  
  Islam considers freedom to be a natural right of the human being. Life becomes devoid of worth when freedom is not present. When a person loses his freedom, his inner self dies, even though on the outside, he continues to live; eating, drinking, working, and going through the other motions of life.
   
  Islam elevates freedom to such a level that it has made free thought the proper way of recognizing God’s existence.  God says:
   
  {There is no compulsion in religion. Guidance is clear from error.}
   
  The verse negates the use of compulsion in religion because religious belief is the mightiest thing that a human possesses. This makes it quite clear that compulsion is not tolerated in any other matter. It is also clear that the human being is independent in what she possesses and does without being subjected to the will of anyone else. The individual has free will and free choice