The Daffodils Symbolism Essay

Many symbolic things display who a person is and how they are. Personally I am a lot of things. I am a sister, daughter, student and an artist. The list goes on and on. However, I believe everyone has one thing in their life that truly defines who they are, and who they would have been without it. I am a Texan girl through and through, from my sweet tea to the red dirt on the bottoms of my shoes. Around my ninth year of life I had to take a large amount of responsibility on my shoulder’s. At this time my parents had torn my family by divorcing. My heart was heavy because I knew that my life would never be the same. My mom was a single mother raising three kids at this point. Therefore, I had to take on the role of a second mom to my little sister. I had set a good example for her. After this, my mom made the decision to move my splintered family to a whole new geographic setting, Granbury, TX. …show more content…
With all the confusion of my family's separation I was in need of an outlet and or a safe place. As a result, I desired nothing but time alone once we entered our new home. Just as it was shown in the poem The Daffodils by William Wordsworth the author so too was isolated. I was a lost nine year old attending a big new school. Ultimately, my entire world was crushed, until the moment I entered the art room at my new school. When I walked in the smell of used oil pastels and freshly sharpened pencils was safe to me. The scents comforted me right away. The facilitator was free as a bird in her surroundings. I felt a place of belonging during a time of absolute confusion, everything made sense. I saw community within the art room, and desired to be a part of it. From that point on, art changed my lens through the way I looked at my life and at the