Q.

Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
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.

1. Who is referred to ‘I’ in the extract? Where is ‘I’ and what is he doing?
2. Explain the following lines:
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
3. Why do you think the poet refers to the daffodils as golden?
4. Describe the scene in your own words.
5. How does the poet describe himself in the first two lines? Do you think the
use of the word “wandered” appropriate here?
6. What does the use of the phrase “lonely as a cloud” suggest?

Q. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
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.
1. With what does the poet compare the daffodils? Explain the resemblance.
2. Explain the lines- “They stretched in never-ending line, along the margin of a
bay:”
3. Why does the poet says- “Ten thousand saw I at a glance”? What literary
device is used here and why?
4. What is meant by the margin of the bay?
5. How are the daffodils described here?

Q. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
The waves beside them danced; but they
Outdid 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:
1. How did the daffodils outdo the waves?
2. What is meant by jocund company? Which jocund company is the poet
referring to? Why does the poet find it jocund?
3. How does wealth come to the poet by looking at the scene before him?
4. What according to the poet distinguishes the daffodils from the natural
surroundings?

5. What rhyme scheme is followed in the poem? Explain the lines: I gazed—
and gazed—but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought:

Q. Read the extract given below and answer the questions that follow:
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.

1. What does happen to the poet when he lies on his couch?

2. Explain the transition from the poet’s pensive mood to his heart filled with
joy.

3. How can the heart dance?

4. What does the use of the phrase ‘inward eye’ imply here?

5. What is “bliss of solitude” referred to in the extract? How does the bliss of
solitude take place?