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Notes He centres on the role of the imagination in the interplay between the mind and environment
and it is only after he has experienced this scene does he turn to contemplation of it and it
thereafter becomes a reflective and restorative memory for him. He realises the full extent of
the wealth the scene has given him in a spiritual way (L.17 and 18) and it stays with him
always as an inspiration.

Self Assessment

Multiple Choice Questions:

5. The poem ‘Daffodils’ is
(a) sonnet (b) allegory
(c) lyrical poem (d) none
6. The poem ‘Daffodils’ is also known by the title
(a) ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ (b) Prelude

(c) “The World Is Too Much with Us (d) Lucy
7. The poem ‘Daffodils’ is written by
(a) Wordsworth (b) Keats
(c) Byron (d) Shelley
8. William Wordsworth was a

(a) Romantic poet (b) Metaphysical poet
(c) Revolutionary Poet (d) None
9. A bunch of daffodils symbolize
(a) unhappiness (b) war
(c) joys (d) none

10. Wordsworth praises the daffodils, comparing them to
(a) earth (b) heaven
(c) ocean (d) milky Way galaxy
11. The arrival of daffodils is in the month of
(a) April (b) June

(c) January (d) March

17.8 Summary

• The poem ‘Daffodils’ is also known by the title ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’, a lyrical
poem written by William Wordsworth in 1804. It was published in 1815 in ‘Collected
Poems’ with four stanzas.
• The ‘Daffodils’ has a rhyming scheme throughout the poem. The rhyming scheme of the
above stanza is ABAB ( A - cloud and crowd; B - hills and daffodils) and ending with
a rhyming couplet CC (C - trees and breeze).
• The poem paints images of lakes, fields, trees, stars in Ullswater.

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