ACTIVITIES
1. Did you understand the theme of the poem?
discuss with your teacher the following questions orally. Then, write the answers in your exercise book.
a. Read the first stanza. Then find the answer to the following question: with what does the William Wordsworth compare himself?
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b) Read the second stanza. Now find out the following: with what Wordsworth compare daffodils?
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c) Read and recite the third stanza. Now find out what words worth means by jocund company from the options below.
I) happy and cheerful
ii) talkative
iii) quiet and sad
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d) Read and recite the lines:
“I gazed and gazed but little thought what wealth the show to me had brought.”
What wealth the show to me had brought .
What does the poet mean by the word wealth ? Why does he use the word here ?
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e) read the last stanza of the poem and find out the following information:What happens to the poet when he lies on his couch in a sad and thoughtful mood?
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2) Choose the correct option in each of the following questions:
a) The poet compares himself to
i) a piece of lonely cloud
ii) a host of golden daffodils
iii) a lake
iv) The tress
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b) While wandering alone, the poet saw
i) a crowd of people
ii) clouds floating over vales and hills
iii) a host of golden daffodils
iv) a lake
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c) The poet compares the daffodils to
i) a lonely cloud
ii) a lonely cloud
iii) The stars in the milky way
iv) a bay
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d) The ‘jocund company’ referred to is the company of
i) The daffodils
ii) the sparking waves of the lake
iii) the dancing daffodils and the waves of the lake
iv) the stars on the milky way
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e) the inward eye of the poet is the poet’s
i) vacant mood
ii) thoughtful mood
iii) imagination
iv) bliss of solitude
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3. Read the poem and match the following .
The waves filled with pleasure and danced with the daffodils
The poet danced beside the daffodils
A cloud stretched in a never ending line
The daffodils floated over valleys and hills
The poet’s heart saw a host of golden daffodils
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4. Read the poem again and answer the following Questions
a) Find a word in stanza . that means ‘ to roam about
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b) Find out what ‘ o ‘ e r ‘ means . How will you write The actual word ?
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c) Find a word in stanza 2 which means ‘ a lake ‘.
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d) What does the poet refer to when he says ten thousand saw I ‘ ?
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e) What is sprightly dance ?
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F) Give another word each for ‘ glee ‘ and ‘ jocund ‘ .
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g) What is out – did in ‘ out – did the sparking waves ‘ ?
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h) Give the opposite of the Following words
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5. A beautiful poem is meant to be recite listen the teacher reading to you the following pairs of words from the poem . Than repeat the words after the teacher and practice the pronunciation of each word . This will help you recite the poem .
(a) wandered ——- wondered
(b) breeze ——– bridge
(c) shine ——- sign
(d) stretched ——- stressed
(e) they ——- day
(f) show ——- sow
(g) flash —— flesh
(h) heart ——- hurt
6. Let us go back to the poem once more and note the following .
a) The first line ( 11 ) of the poem ends with cloud .
b) L2 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 pair of rhyming words.
Now , make a list of the other rhyming words in the poem .
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Chose from the box the word rhyming with the underlined word complete the sentence
still, dancing, mood, breeze
i) The sun is Shining and the girl is .
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ii) The forest is full of green trees and the flowers are dancing in the cool .
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iii) On the top of the bare hill I stand mute and .
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iv) Don’t spoil my by being so rude .
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7. a) Rewrite the following poetic lines in everyday English .
i) Ten thousand saw t at a glance .
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ii) For oft when on my couch T lie in vacant or in pensive mood .
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iii) Then my heart with pleasure fills .
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b) Find two words in the poem that are poetic in from and are not used in prose . Write a sentence illustrating the use of each of the two words .
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c) Illustrate the differences in meaning between gaze and stare by writing a sentence using each .
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8. Note that one word in each of the following lines is wrong . Rewrite with extract below by replacing the wrong word with the correct word of the poem .
The trees beside them danced; but they
Out-did the twinkling waves in glee;
A cloud could not but be gay
In such a joyous company:
I gazed-and gazed-but also thought
What wealth the sight to me had brought.
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10. Let ‘ s learn some grammar .
Here are some lines that tell us what the poet said he was doing in the poem . Working with your partner . Fill in the blank spaces with the correct from of the word .
One day the poet William Wordsworth was wandering alone along a lake. All at once, he ______ (see) a host of golden daffodils. The daffodils________(dance) in the breeze.
The poet________(compare) the daffodils to the stars on the milky way. They_______(stretch) in a never-ending line along the side of the lake. He _______ (notice) that the waves of the lake were also________(dance) joyfully. He _______ (enjoy) the scene very much.
Later, in his sad moments, when the poet often _______ (recall) the scene, his heart filled with joy and________ (begin) to dance with the daffodils.
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11. Read the poem carefully . Pick out the words from each stanza that indicate or refer to some kind or action of work . In your exercise book , make list of all the action words that you have picked out . Use the dictionary to find out the meaning of the unfamiliar action words .
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12. a) The action words that you have listed refer to some kind of actions or work done by the poet . Such words are called verbs . Write down some action words in column B that match with the nouns in column A .
Column A Column B
Clouds
golden daffodils
stars
sparkling waves
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