Daffodils

Question 1

What does William Wordsworth compare his lonely wandering to?

Answer 1

William Wordsworth compares his lonely wandering to a cloud that flows high over vales and hills.

Question 2

What was the colour of the Daffodils?

Answer 2

Golden

Question 3

Where were the Daffodils located?

Answer 3

Besides the lake, beneath the trees

Question 4

What were the daffodils doing?

Answer 4

They were fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Question 5

How many daffodils did William Wordsworth say he saw?

Answer 5

William Wordsworth said that he saw 10,000 daffodils at a glance.

Question 6

How did William Wordsworth describe the Daffodils?

Answer 6

1. He said that the Daffodils were as continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way.
2. He said that the Daffodils stretched in a never ending line along the margin of a bay.
3. He said that the Daffodils were tossing their heads in a sprightly dance.
4. He said that the Daffodils “outdid” the “sparkling waves” that were dancing next to them.

Question 7

What ‘wealth’ did the Daffodils bring William Wordsworth?

Answer 7

Often, when William Wordsworth lay on his couch lying in “vacant” or in “pensive” mood, the Daffodils flashed upon his “inward eye”, making his heart fill with pleasure and making his heart dance with the Daffodils.

Question 8

Genre

Answer 8

Lyrical poem

Question 9

Alliteration in Daffodils

Answer 9

Alliteration is used in the phrase “high o’er vales and hills” to add to the rhythm of the poem

Question 10

Personification in Daffodils

Answer 10

Personification is used in the phrase “fluttering and dancing in the breeze” in order to provide more description regarding the behaviour of Daffodils.

Question 11

Simile in Daffodils

Answer 11

Simile is used in Daffodils in the line “I wandered lonely as a cloud”(wherein the poet compares himself to a cloud). This comparsion with clouds(a normal day-to-day object) helps enhance the idea of William Wordsworth being in solitude.

Question 12

Metaphor in Daffodils

Answer 12

Metaphor is used in Daffodils by the phrase “What wealth the show to me had brought” in order to place the value of the memory of the Daffodils in context of something ordinary that everyone can understand like money.

Question 13

Hyperbaton in Daffodils

Answer 13

Hyperbaton is used in daffodils in the phrase “ten thousand saw I at a glance”.

Question 14

Antithesis in Daffodils

Answer 14

Antithesis is used in the phrase “in vacant or in pensive mood”.

Question 15

Metonymy in Daffodils

Answer 15

Metonymy is used in the phrase “A poet coud not be but gay”.