this is to help with the poem The Daffodils
1. ‘They stretched in never ending line
Along margin of a bay’
a. What are being referred to as ‘they’?
Ans. In these lines the daffodils are referred to as ‘they’. These are the daffodils that
the poet saw when he was out on a walk with his sister.
b. Which words indicate that the poet saw a large number of those things?
Ans. The words ‘never ending line’ indicate that the poet saw a large number of
daffodils. When he saw on a walk by himself, he chanced upon a whole area filled
with them.
c. Where did the poet spot them?
Ans. He spotted them along the margin of a bay.
d. What does he compare them to? What figure of speech does he use?
Ans. The poet compares them to the numerous stars in the Milky Way. He has
used a simile to make his comparison.
2. ‘A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company:’
a. What does the word jocund mean? Who were jocund?
Ans. The word ‘jocund’ means jolly or cheerful. The daffodils the poet saw were
jocund.
b. Whom did they outdo in being jocund?
Ans. The daffodils were more jocund than the sparkling waves on a lake.
c. How did their mood affect the poet?
Ans. The poet too observed the happiness of the daffodils and felt joyous in their
company.
3. ‘They flash upon their inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;’
a. What does the words ‘inward eye’ mean? What flashed on the poet’s inward
eye?
Ans. In this extract, ‘inward eye’ refers to the poet’s imagination or dream. The
best of the golden daffodils that the poet had seen flashed upon his inward eyes.
b. What does the phrase ‘the bliss of solitude’ means? How does the poet feel the
bliss of solitude?
Ans. The phrase ‘bliss of solitude’ refers to the calm and peacefulness that the poet
feels when he is completely alone and left and left to his own thoughts. The memory
of the daffodils fills the poet with the same gaity and cheer that he felt when he first
saw the daffodils. This is the way; he felt the ‘bliss of solitude’ in moments of
loneliness.
c. What impact does the memory of the daffodils have on the poet?
Ans. The poet feels rejuvenated with the memory of the daffodils and his mood
lightens up. He feels happy and cheerful in the same way when he saw the daffodils
for the first time.
d. What happens when he experiences this happiness?
Ans. When he experiences this feeling his heart is filled with joy and he feels like
he is back where the daffodils were dancing in the light breeze.
1. “I wandered lonely as a cloud
That float on high o’er vales and hills”.
a) “I wandered” what does it refer to?
Ans. In the first stanza the poet was moving about without any sense of purpose
or direction.
b) Where did his find the daffodils?
Ans. He found the golden daffodils beside the lake, beneath the trees fluttering
and dancing in the breeze.
c) What does the poet compare the daffodils to?
Ans. The poet compared the daffodils to stars that twinkle on the milky way
2. “A poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company;”
a) What does the “jocund company” consist of?
Ans. The “jocund company” consists of daffodils clouds, stars, breeze, vales,
waves, hills and lakes.
b) What does “wealth” refers to?
Ans. “Wealth” referred to the joyful thought that makes the poet happy.
c) What makes the poet happy when he is in sad mood?
Ans. The dancing daffodils make the poet’s mood cheerful when he is sad.
d) Write briefly about the poet.
Ans. William Wordsworth is one of the most important British poets. He believed
that nature was man’s great
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this is to help with the poem The Daffodils
1. ‘They stretched in never ending line
Along margin of a bay’
a. What are being referred to as ‘they’?
Ans. In these lines the daffodils are referred to as ‘they’. These are the daffodils that
the poet saw when he was out on a walk with his sister.
b. Which words indicate that the poet saw a large number of those things?
Ans. The words ‘never ending line’ indicate that the poet saw a large number of
daffodils. When he saw on a walk by himself, he chanced upon a whole area filled
with them.
c. Where did the poet spot them?
Ans. He spotted them along the margin of a bay.
d. What does he compare them to? What figure of speech does he use?
Ans. The poet compares them to the numerous stars in the Milky Way. He has
used a simile to make his comparison.
2. ‘A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company:’
a. What does the word jocund mean? Who were jocund?
Ans. The word ‘jocund’ means jolly or cheerful. The daffodils the poet saw were
jocund.
b. Whom did they outdo in being jocund?
Ans. The daffodils were more jocund than the sparkling waves on a lake.
c. How did their mood affect the poet?
Ans. The poet too observed the happiness of the daffodils and felt joyous in their
company.
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