Notes of Daffodils-English

                                              Daffodils

Answer the following:-

Q1. What was the poet doing?

Ans- The  poet was wandering alone in the  country side.

 Q2. What did he see and where?

Ans.  The poet saw a host of golden daffodils near a lake and beneath the tree.

Q3. To what does the poet compare the daffodils?

Ans- The poet compares the daffodils to the stars that shine and twinkle in the Milky way.

Q4. Why did the poet make such a comparison?

Ans- The poet made such a comparison because

to him the daffodils seemed to grow in never-ending numbers like stars in a galaxy. The yellow daffodils seemed to shine and glow brightly under the sun, like the light of the far away stars.

Q5. Describe the poet’s feelings on seeing the daffodils?

Ans- The poet felt very cheerful and happy on seeing the daffodils.

Q6. When does the poet remember the daffodils?

Ans- The poet often remembers the daffodils when he rests on his couch or lies there in deep thought.

Additional questions:

Q1. Where is the lonely cloud said to be?

Ans- The lonely cloud is said to be floating high  over the valleys and hills.

 Q2. Where did the daffodils stretch along?

Ans- The daffodils stretched along the margin of a bay (a body of water having a coastline)

Q3. What is the wealth that the poet got?

Ans- The wealth that the poet got is the wealth of happiness that fills his heart when he thinks about the daffodils.

FIGURES OF SPEECH:-

METAPHOR- The poet is metaphorically compared to a natural object, a cloud—“I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high...”, and the daffodils are continually personified as human beings, dancing and “tossing their heads” in “a crowd, a host”.

PERSONIFICATION- The daffodils are continuously personified as human beings“dancing and tossing their heads.”

SIMILE- In the first line of the poem the poet has

 used the simile-

‘lonely as a cloud’.