English IX - Chapter No.6 - Questions / Answers and Text Book Exercise

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The Daffodils (Poem)
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Difficult Words and Comprehensions

STANZA NO. 1

S.NO.	Words	Meanings
1.	Wandered	Walked here and there without purpose.
2.	Vale	Valley, space between hills or mountains.
3.	Host	Great number or Groups.
4.	Daffodils	Beautiful yellow flowers.
5.	Fluttering	Housing in breeze.

Questions and Answers

Q.1 What was the poet doing?
Ans. The poet was wandering aimlessly in the country side.

Q.2 What did he see?
Ans. He saw a host of Golden Daffodils fluttering and dancing beside the lakes.

Q.3 Where were the daffodils?
Ans. The daffodils were beside the lake and beneath the tree.

Q.4 Describe the scene in your own words?
Ans.  When the poet is walking all alone in the English Country side. He saw thousands of Golden Daffodils are growing beneath the trees and beside the lake. In the strong breeze the daffodils appear to be doing a brisk lovely dance. They stretched in a never-ending line. they were in very large numbers and look like stars on the milky way.

STANZA NO. 2

S.NO.	Words	Meanings
1.	Continuous	Going on without a break.
2.	Milky way	A bright belt of stars in the sky.
3.	Bay	Small part of sea or lake.
4.	At a glance	Quick look
5.	Tossing	Rising and falling.
6.	Sprightly	Lively, brisk.

Questions and Answers

Q.1 What does the poet compare the daffodils with and why?   (KHI Board - General group 2010)
Ans. The poet compares the daffodils with the countless  shinning and twinkling stars. The daffodils stretched along the margin of a bay in a never-ending line like the stars spreads on the milky way.  The daffodils fluttered in the breeze while the stars twinkle in the sky.

Q.2 What resemblance did he find between the stars and the daffodils?
Ans. The poet found resemblance between the stars and daffodils in some way.
1. the daffodils stretched along the margin of a bay in a never-ending line like stars on the milky way.
2. The daffodils fluttered in the breeze, while the stars twinkled in the sky.

Q.3 How many flowers were there?
Ans. There were numerous flowers in a way that the poet saw ten thousand daffodils at a glance.

Q.4 Where were the flowers?
Ans. The flowers were stretched along the margin of the bay.

STANZA NO. 3

S.NO.	Words	Meanings
1.	Out did	Past tense of out do – did better than.
2.	Sparkling	Shining.
3.	Glu	Happiness
4.	Journal	Gay, lively
5.	Gazed	Looked with wonder.
6.	What wealth	Here, what happiness.
7.	The show	The scene (of the daffodils dancing and fluttering)

Questions and Answers

Q.1 Which of the two danced more: the waves or the daffodils?
Ans. The daffodils danced more than the waves.

Q.2 What did the poet feel looking at the daffodils? 

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What kind of poetry did William Wordsworth compose? What is the theme of the poem "The Daffodils"?  (KHI Board - Science group 2014, 2015)

Ans.  William Wordsworth is known as the poet of nature. He describes beauty in his poetry. Once he came across a large number of daffodils. They were bloomimg and tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The scene of the daffodils filled the heart of the poet was filled with great joy and he felt happy. This beautiful scene is the theme of the poem "The daffodils".

Q.3 How can wealth come to the poet by looking at the scene before him?
Ans. William Wordsworth was a poet of nature. He loved natural beauty. When he looked at the beautiful scene of  golden daffodils fluttering and dancing in the breeze.  He valued his happiness as a wealth.

STANZA NO. 4

S.NO.	Words	Meanings
1.	Oft	Often, many times.
2.	Vacant	Free hours, leisure time.
3.	Pensive	Seriously thoughtful.
4.	Flash	Sudden bright light.
5.	Inward eye	Deep looks power to see the past experience in mind.
6.	Bless of solitude	Great job of being alone.

Questions and Answers

Q.1 What happens to the poet when he lies on his couch?

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Under what condition the poet of the poem " The Daffodils" recalls the scene of the daffodils?

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What does Wordsworth see when he lies upon his couch in a pensive mood?   (KHI Board - Science group 2006, 2013, 2016 General group 2006, 2008)
Ans. When the poet lies on the couch in a vacant or pensive mood, he recalls the beautiful scene of  the daffodils before his eyes. His heart than fills with pleasure and dance with daffodils. His loneliness than becomes a great joy.

Q.2 Mention the two moods of the poet.
Ans. The two moods of the poet were:
Vacant Mood
Pensive Mood

Q.3 How can the heart dance?
Ans. The memory of the flowers, filled the heart of the poet with pleasure and it begins to dance with the dancing daffodils.

Q.4 Has this ever happened to you?
Ans. A good thing always remains in one’s memory, it reacts when one thinks of it. It is a case with every one and so as well as with me.


Q.5: Write the message or Central idea of the poem? (KHI Board - General group 2012) Ans: Beautiful things especially nature's beauty is a great source of happiness.  A beautiful memory scene stays in the memory for a long time. Whenever such scene flash back in our memories, they fill us with pleasure. The message of the poem is" The natural scenes gives us great pleasure as they are great source of beauty."