Daffodil question and answer of all extract for ICSE
Answers
1) How do you know that the poet was so happy when he saw the daffodils?
He uses the word “lonely cloud” “wandered”. These words state that he was alone and wandering in a light mind. That is, without worries.
2) What did the poet saw while wandering?
He saw a “a host of golden daffodils”
3) Where did the daffodils grow?
They grew “beside the lake and beneath the trees.”
4) What did the daffodils do?
They were happy, “Fluttering and dancing in the breeze”
5) In what sense, do you think, were the poet and the daffodils similar?
They were both happy and they were being moved by the breeze.
6) What does the poet compare the daffodils in the second stanza?
The poet compares the daffodils to the stars that shine.
7) Do you think this comparison is appropriate? Why?
Yes, the comparison made was appropriate. Stars are used for happiness and they twinkle along the Milky Way like the daffodils dance along the margin of the bay that is, in a straight line.
8) Who outdid what? How?
The daffodils outdid the waves. They outdid in showing their happiness by dancing in glee.
The poetic devices used are
Personification: A Host of Golden Daffodil (there are many examples in this poem for this)
Metaphor: ten thousand
Alliteration: “The stars that shine”