Question

poem 'Daffodils'

Comprehension
A. Answer these questions.
1. What does the speaker compare himself to at the beginning of the poem?
2. What impression does the word 'wandered create? What if the speaker had used
the word 'walked instead? Would the effect have been the same?
3. Where did the speaker see the daffodils?
4. Why are the daffodils compared to the stars in the sky?
5. How did the daffodils compete with the waves on the lake? What does
the 'jocund company' do to the speaker?
6. Where and how did the speaker remember the daffodils later in life?​

Answer 1

Answer:

(1) 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.

(2). wandered creates a sort of impression that the speaker is lazy; that he has nothing to do. but walked can imply that the speaker is exercising or that he is walking because it has some purpose.

(3). In the poem "Daffodils" penned by William Wordsworth, he saw "daffodils when he was walking" with his "sister Dorothy around Glencoyne Bay", Ullswater, in the Lake District on 15 April, 1802.

(4). The poet compares daffodils to the stars in the galaxy because they were stretched in straight line and appeared just like stars in the sky. The daffodils were golden in color, and their waving in the breeze seemed like the stars were shining and twinkling. These similarities have urged the poet to compare them.

(5). The daffodils wave and are compared to the lake. The jocund company makes the speaker happy and not lonely.

(6). whenever he becomes sad or in vacant mood or foul mood the site of the dancing daffodils beside the glowing waves of the lake water makes the poet forgot his bacon thoughts and sad mood to get a certain happiness of solitude which feels the poet's hearts with pleasurable thoughts.