ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The poet has personified “daffodils” in the third line of the poem, such as, “When all at once I saw a crowd.” The crowd shows the number of daffodils. The second example of personification is used in the second stanza as, “Tossing their heads and sprightly dance.” It shows that the Daffodils are humans that can dance.

Detailed explanation-2: -Personification means that the poet attributes human qualities to non-human things. To Wordsworth, the daffodils look like a “crowd” or a “host” of people. They cheerfully toss their “heads” (12), know how to dance, and provide good “company” (16), which is more than can be said of some individuals.

Detailed explanation-3: -A lyric poem inspired by an event on 15 April 1802, when William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a “long belt” of daffodils in the Lake District, where they lived at the time.

Detailed explanation-4: -A common example of visual imagery is “A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” from the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, the poet uses various metaphors. e.g. The poet compares the daffodils with stars shining in the galaxy as like the stars, the daffodils were everywhere. Next, he describes his joy in terms of wealth.