The daffodils

Puspa Kakati

Activities

  1. Read the first stanza . Then find the answer to the following question; with what does the pout william Wordsworth compare himself ?
  2. Read the second stanza . now find out the following :with what does Wordsworth compare the daffodils?
  3. Read and recite the third stanza. Now find out what Wordsworth means by jocund company from the options below; (i) happy and cheerful
  4. (ii) talkative
  5. quiet and sad
  6. Read and recite the lines :I gazed -and gazed -but little thought
  7. What wealth the show to me had brought.” What does the pout mean by word w3ealth? Why does he use the word here?
  8. Read the last stanza of the pome and find out the following information. What happens to the poet when he lies on his couch in a sad and thoughtful mood?
  9. choose the compares in each of the following questions:
  10. The poet compares himself to
  1. a piece of lonely cloud
  2. A host of golden daffodils
  3. A lake
  4. The trees
  5. Answer:-

(B) While wandering alone, the poet saw

(1) A crowd of peopel

(2) clouds floating over vales and hills

(3) A host of golden daffodils

(4) A lake

Answer:-

(C) The poet compares the daffodils

  1. A lonely cloud
  2. A lake
  3. A bay

Answer:-

(D) The jocund company referred to is the company of

(1) The daffodils

(2) The daffodils

(3) The sparkling waves of the lake

(4) The stars on the milky way

Answer:-

(E) The inward eye of the poet is the poets

(1) Vacant mood

(2) Thoughtful mood

(3) Imagination

(4) Bliss of solitude

Answer:-

3.Read the poem again and answer the following questions :

(a) Find a word in stanza 1 that means to roam about;

(b) Find out what O er , means. How will you write the actual word?

(c) Find a word in stanza 2 which means a lake ;

(d) What does the poet refer to when he says Ten thousand saw I?

(e) What is sprightly dance?

(f) Give another word each for glee and jocund;

(g) What is out-did in out -did the sparkling waves ?

(h) Give the opposite of the following words: vacant, pleasure, bliss

6.Let us go back to the poem once more and note the following:

(a) The first line (L 1) of the pome ends with cloud.

(b) L 2 ends with hills .

(c) L3 ends with crowd.

(d) L4 ends with daffodils.

Note that cloud and crowd are a pair of rhyming words .

Also note that hills and daffodils are a pair of rhyming words .

7.( a) Rewrite the following poetic lines in everyday English.

(1) Ten thousand saw I at a glance

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