Question

What did the daffodils outdo and how

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

In the third stanza of the poem, wordsworth compaares the dancing daffodils to the dancing waves in the lake. By this comparion he wanted to express the joy the flowers provided to his mind. The waves were sparkling in joy in the lakes, but the daffodils exceeded the waves in their joy and glee.

The daffodils outdid the sparkling waves of the lake nearby the daffodils.

Due to the beauty of the daffodils, the poet thinks that the daffodils outdid the sparkling waves of the water in the lake.

Answer 2

Explanation:

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.