Explain the following with refrence to context: Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle in the milky way,They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thilousand saw I at a glance Tossing their heads in sprightly dance
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the poem daffodils takes place when the poet met a huge host of daffodils. the daffodils are compared to the stars in the galaxy. the stars are huge in number and hence, uncountable. similarly, the daffodils were numerous and seemed to be continuous like the stars.
"they stretched in never ending lines" literally means that there were so many daffodils that they were seen till very far along the river side.
"ten thousand i saw"
the poet is exaggerating here (as he didn't count them to be ten thousand) and so the figure of speech used here is hyperbola.
the daffodils were moving along with the breeze that blew over them and so the poet says that they tossed they're heads in sprightly (full of spirit) dance as it seemed like they were dancing. here the daffodils are personified.
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The poet or the speaker in this poem, says that, once while "wandering like a cloud floating above hills and valleys”, he came across a field of daffodils beside a lake. The dancing, fluttering flowers stretched endlessly along the shore, and though the shining waves of the lake danced beside the flowers, yet the daffodils outdid the water with their beauty. The poet says that the golden daffodils twinkled and stretched in a continuous line just like the stars in the Milky Way galaxy for putting a greater implication in indicating that the flowers are heavenly as the stars. He seems the endless view of the golden daffodils as a never-ending line. The poet's exaggeration of the number of flowers by saying "Ten thousand saw I at a glance" indicates that he has never seen so many daffodils at once. The poet could not help to be happy in such a joyful company of flowers. He says that he stared and stared, but did not realize what wealth the scene would bring him. For now, whenever he feels "vacant" or "pensive" the memory strikes "that inward eye" that is "the bliss of solitude" and his heart fills with pleasure, "and dances with the daffodils."