William Wordsworth in his Preface to the Lyrical Ballads has defined poetry as a ‘spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ And his own poems have often been true to his statement. His poems have been the expressions of his feelings and emotions.
 
In the present poem ‘Daffodils’, Wordsworth has depicted a host of beautiful golden daffodil flowers that he came across in the valley of Scotland. The beauty of those flowers had left an everlasting impression upon his mind. In his later life, when he spent some lonely moments on his couch, he recollected those beautiful flowers and the memory of those daffodils used to fill his heart with pleasure. That is why the poet wrote this poem. This poem was not a deliberate and artificial attempt of the poet, but a spontaneous expression of his feelings, the joy the flowers had brought to his life. This originates from the ’emotion recollected in tranquility’. Thus the poem ‘Daffodils’ holds true to his own statement about what poetry should be.