Question

Long answer question Explain with evidence how the poet has effectively used literary techniques in his poem, “The Daffodils”. 10 points

Answer 1

Answer:

The Daffodils

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine

And twinkle on the Milky Way,

They stretched in never-ending line

Along the margin of a bay:

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

A Poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company:

I gazed—and gazed—but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills,

And dances with the daffodils.

by William Wordsworth

The poet has used it for create rhyme and effective which also makes one of the classic poems. The common figure of speech used are like, personification, simile, hyperbole and alliteration.

The very 1st and 7th line he uses simile “I wandered lonely as a cloud”, “Continous like star that shines” here the poet makes a direct comparison between him and a cloud in 1st and comparison between daffodills and stars in 7th

Alliteration in 5th and last line “Beside the lake, beneath the trees”, “ and dances like daffodills”. There is repetition of the sound b in 1st and d in last line

Personification is used in all below mentioned lines 6th line “Fluttering and dancing in the breeze”, 12th line “Tossing their heads in sprightly dance”13th, 14th line “The waves beside them danced, but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee” All this above lines daffodills are referred as a person.

Hyperbole is used in 2nd 11th and 9th line respectively “When all at once I saw a crowd”, “Ten thousand saw I at a glance”, ”They stretched in never-ending line” All in these sentences there is exaggeration and overstatement. The poet has used ‘crowd’ and ‘ten thousand’ to mean a lot of daffodils. But he must not have counted them there at a glance. This is an obvious exaggeration. The flowers must be many , but that should not be ‘never-ending’. The poet has made an overstatement in this line.

Answer 2

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
by William Wordsworth

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.