ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Why is the poet so sad to see the Daffodils in ‘The Daffodils’?
A
The poet is sad because the flowers have not bloomed fully.
B
The poet is sad because the flowers remind him of his own death.
C
The poet is sad because the winter will soon arrive.
D
The poet is sad because the summer will go away.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The poem deals with the transitory of the beauty of nature and the short life of human beings. At the beginning of the poem, the poet says that he weeps to see the short duration of the beauty of daffodils. They bloom in the morning and wither away before it is noon. Similarly, human life is very short.

Detailed explanation-2: -Ans – William Wordsworth feels ecstatically happy amidst the crowd of daffodils. He feels as if his heart dances with the magnificent daffodils. He forgets all his sorrow and disappointments for the moment and he feels he is in company of his lifelong best friends who would never leave him alone ever in his future.

Detailed explanation-3: -Ans – The poet saw a host of golden daffodils, fluttering and dancing in the breeze beside the lake and beneath the trees.

Detailed explanation-4: -"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” (also commonly known as “Daffodils") is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by a forest encounter on 15 April 1802 between he, his younger sister Dorothy and a “long belt” of daffodils.

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