2. What effect is achieved by showing the daffodils as part of the universal order in the second stanza? In these lines Wordsworth shows the daffodils as part of a universal order, as growing where they do, just as the stars in the Milky Way are fixed in their courses, because of the natural law which dictates their existence. In all creation man seems the only creature that is capable of feeling not at home, of "wandering as lonely as a cloud".