LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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When all at once I saw a crowd
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Ten thousand saw I at a glance
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A poet could not but be gay
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I gazed and gazed but little thought
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: In the poem Daffodils, the poet William Wordsworth says “I gazed and gazed but little thought what wealth the show to me had brought” because the poet was mesmerised and enchanted by the sight of the vibrant, golden daffodils stretched beside the lake, beneath the trees.
Detailed explanation-2: -What wealth the show to me had brought: The repetition of “gaze” tells us that he kept looking at the flowers for a long time. It’s as if the speaker enjoys looking at these daffodils at the time, but doesn’t realize exactly how great of a gift he has just received with this vision.
Detailed explanation-3: -Shelley’s description shows us that actually the sublime is about an interaction between nature and the mind. It isn’t just one thing and the other; it’s both: “My own, my human mind…/ Holding an unremitting interchange/ With the clear universe of things around.” The sublime is both outside and inside the speaker.
Detailed explanation-4: -The opening line of a poem should grab the reader’s attention, invoke the thematic intentions of the poem, and give an insight into the poet’s writing style.