ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The ‘jocund company’ the poet refers to is what?
A
His couch.
B
The daffodils and the waves.
C
The trees.
D
Clouds.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -a) Whose ‘jocund company’ is the poet referring to? Ans – By jocund company, the poet means the daffodils whose beauty he was enjoying.

Detailed explanation-2: -Jocund company means cheerful company. The poet is talking about the jocund company of daffodils. The poet found it jocund because the daffodils were dancing cheerfully that brought a new wealth, a cheerful kind of happiness to the poet.

Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: in the third stanza of the poem, wordsworth compaares the dancing daffodils to the dancing waves in the lake. By this comparion he wanted to express the joy the flowers provided to his mind. The waves were sparkling in joy in the lakes, but the daffodils exceeded the waves in their joy and glee.

Detailed explanation-4: -the poet compares the daffodils with the waves as he can’t count the wideness of waves in the similar way to daffodils. the daffodils were widely spreaded and the poet can’t see the ending boundary of them. 2. he was also happy to see the dance of daffodils as they were dancing like the beautiful water waves.

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