ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The inward eye refers to the eye of his imagination, his soul which can provide him the sight of the daffodils in his memory and he can once again experience the same joy which he had experienced when he had seen the daffodils.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ”inward eye” narrated about his thoughtful or pensive mood. In this final stanza, the narrator also says that when he is lying on his couch in a ”pensive” mood, his mind flashes back to the dance of the daffodils he saw on an early spring day. This memory gives him happiness.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is this that he attempts to convey when the speaker says that the image of the daffodils upon the “inward eye” makes them “the bliss of solitude". Here the speaker means that when he is alone and the thought of the daffodils comes to his memory, the solitude he is in becomes a blissful experience.

Detailed explanation-4: -Answer: The ‘inward eye’ refers to the mind’s eye or the intuitive senses. The poet says that a bright scene of golden daffodils flashes before his mind’s eye. And every time the sight of the daffodils enters his head, the poet is filled with joy and good spirits, and he dances with the golden daffodils.