Please tell the questions and answers of cp daffodils in class 8
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Q. What does the inward eye mean? What is it that flashes upon his eye? Do you think the poet is affected by it in any way? Give reasons.
Ans. The inward eye means visual imagination that takes the poet to the world of past recollection. It is something that can not be shared with other people. The golden daffodils which he has seen in the valley flash upon his inward eye. The memory of dancing and fluttering daffodils fills his heart with pleasure.
It is like a spiritual vision that brings a feeling of joy. It is a blessing for the poet. That is why the poet calls the inward eye a ‘bliss of solitude’.
Q. What is the bliss of solitude according to the poet ?
Answer: When the person is in solitude and there is nobody around him. He is all alone. He has the opportunity to think of nature. In the poem the poet says that when he is either busy thinking or not thinking about any thing he is reminded of the daffodils. He says that loneliness becomes lovely if he thinks about daffodils in his loneliness. When he remembers the daffodils he starts feeling happy, content and perfectly at peace with himself. This happens because of solitude.
Q. Why does the poet compares himself to a cloud?
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Why has the poem called daffodils a crowd and how are they in contrast to his loneliness?
Ans. The poet compares himself to a cloud in the beginning of the poem because he is wandering about in a state of loneliness and detachment. Just like the clouds are moving overhead unattached to the scene below similarly the poet is walking all alone detached from the scenes of nature that surround him.
Q. Why is dance important in the poem?
Ans). Dance or movement is an important image in the poem symbolizing the idea of joy, harmony and life itself. Both the daffodils and the waves are dancing in joy. Everything in nature is rejoicing in the One Life that blows through them. They are rejoicing with the principle of joy and pleasure that is there in life itself. Unlike the daffodils and the waves it is only the poet who is solitary and lonely; the only creature in creation capable of feeling not at home and wonders “lonely as a cloud.”
Q. What does “wealth” signify?
Ans).The sight of the daffodils becomes a treasure cove that lifts the poet’s spirit and rejuvenates him in times of loneliness and despair. Whenever the weariness, the fever and the fret of the world becomes too much for him he returns in his imagination to the joyous experience of that spring morning. It lends him the same joy that it gave him the first time. It becomes a permanent source of wealth or treasure to which he can turn in times of distress or need.
Q. Why does the poet consider solitude to be blissful?
Ans). Solitude for Wordsworth was a blissful experience where he could recall from memory the experience of joy and ecstasy that the daffodils had imparted to him. In solitude he could be rejuvenated by the sights and sounds of nature that he had stored in his memory. Solitude for him was not a lonely experience but an enriching one.
Q. Discuss the structure of the poem.
Ans). The poem is twenty four lines long consisting of four stanzas. Each stanza is a sestet that is six lines long. It is formed with a quatrain (four lines), followed by a couplet (two lines) to form a sestet. The rhyme scheme follows the pattern of ABABCC that is: (A cloud in line one rhymes with crowd in line three), ( B hills 2, daffodils 4) and (C trees 5, freeze 6).
Q. What is the poet’s state of mind in the beginning of the poem and what simile he has used to depict that?
Ans) At the beginning of the poem, the poet is loitering alone, aimlessly in a state of loneliness and detachment. He compares himself to a floating cloud above valleys and hills. The simile of floating cloud suggests the sense of detachment. The image of a single cloud emphasizes the sense of detachment. It passes high over vales and hills thus suggesting the poet’s mood of estrangement and isolation.
Q. How the poet has described the daffodils?
Ans) The poet compares the daffodils to the stars in brightness as well as in numbers. Growing along the curve of the lake, the daffodils remind him of the stars that shine along the curve of the heavens. They seem to be as numerous and unending as the stars above. Just as if one look up at the night sky one can take in the immeasurability of the stars in one glance; similarly Wordsworth sees hundreds and thousands of flowers in a single glance. But the flowers are not standing stationary. They are acted upon by the breeze, moving and tossing their heads in a dance of joy. The flowers are tossing their heads about, reverberating in joy.
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