In this poem, Wordsworth gives a voice to a character on the margins of society, ostracized by their community (in this case, a mentally ill single mother) - reminiscent of William Blake's poetic spotlight on characters like the Chimney Sweep or the Little Black Boy. These stanzas particularly stood out to me; his word choice and intense imagery provides an apt reflection on the harrowing experience of madness/mental illness. The image of madness being depicted as a burning fire inside the woman's brain, and of the ghoulish faces physically pulling at her body, paint a bleak portrait of a woman alone in the world with only her demons to pester her.

In this stanza, Wordsworth brings the poem to a close in a quiet culmination of his feelings towards the daffodils, and nature in general; even when he is alone in his home, even if he is generally unhappy, the gravity of the daffodil's beauty - and the beauty of nature as a whole - touched him so deeply that he can simply close his eyes and "they flash upon that inward eye". This line particularly stood out to me because it reminded me of my own relationship with nature; even when I'm alone, away from its beauty, I can merely picture it and a comforting sense of calm accompanies me.

These lines reflect a certain sense of empathy related from the narrator to the convict - a sentiment repeated throughout the rest of the poem. The speaker explains to the convict that he comes "as a brother thy sorrows to share"; he acknowledges the good that lays inside the convict - "whose first wish is the wish to be good" - recognizing his humanity and separating him from the identity of criminal/convict, which further reiterates the sense of empathy found in the poem.