To Daffodils, by Robert Herrick

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attained his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the evensong;
And, having prayed together, we
Will go with you along.

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.

This poem is simply life and death. Regeneration. The daffodil, one of Spring's earliest blooms, is also a flower that will bloom year after year without any replanting. First life, then death, and then rebirth.

The average daffodil life can be seen to be longer than a human life. The average flowering span of a daffodil can range from 6 weeks to 6 months. After blooming the daffodil plant rebuilds its bulb. From this i think the death of the daffodil does not represent a true loss in adolescent life. I feel that the poem is trying to show pure sorrow of death. I feel that it is trying to challenge the real roots of human life. Exploring the extent to which we take our lives with as much importance as others. The daffodil is a plant that sprouts its seeds in order to create bulbs for a new life. If we look at how we help to produce new life we can see that our own ways of producing life only seeks to benefit us