"THE DAFFODILS" Class 7 Lesson No. 5 Question Answer (SCERT, ASSAM)

 

THE DAFFODILS

ACTIVITIES:

1. Did you understand the theme of the poem?

Discuss with your teacher the following questions orally. Then, write the answers in your exercise book.

(a) Read the first stanza. Then find the answer to the following question

With what does the poet William Wordsworth compare himself?

Ans: The poet William Wordsworth compares himself as a cloud.

(b) Read the second stanza. Now find out the following: With what does

Wordsworth compares the daffodils?

Ans: Wordsworth compares the daffodils with the stars which are in the Milky Way.

(c) Read and recite the third stanza. Now find out what Wordsworth means by ‘jocund' company from the options below:

(i) Happy and cheerful

(ii) Talkative

(iii) Quiet and sad

Ans: (i) happy and cheerful

(d) Read and recite the lines:

"I gazed-and gazed-but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought."

What does the poet mean by the word 'wealth'? Why does he use the word here?

Ans: In this poem the poet express his happiness by the word wealth. He uses the word here because when he remembers the daffodils he feels a great pleasure like money and other valuable thing.

(e) Read the last stanza of the poem and find out the following information.

What happens to the poet when he lies on his couch in a sad and thoughtful mood?

Ans:  When the poet lies on his couch in a sad and thoughtful mood then the daffodils flashes upon his inward eyes & his heart is dance with the daffodils in pleasure.

 

2. Choose the correct option in each of the following questions:

(a) The poet compares himself to

(i) a piece of lonely cloud

(ii) a host of golden daffodils

(iii) a lake

(iv) the trees

Answer: (i) a piece of lonely cloud

(b) While wandering alone, the poet saw

(I) a crowd of people

(ii) Clouds floating over vales and hills

(iii) a host of golden daffodils

(iv) a lake

Answer:  (iii) a host of golden daffodils.

(c) The poet compares the daffodils to

(i) a lonely cloud

(ii) a lake

(iii) the stars in the milky way

(iv) a bay

Answer: (iii) the stars in the milky way

(d) The 'jocund company' referred to is the company of

(i) the daffodils

(ii) the sparkling waves of the lake

(iii) the dancing daffodils and the waves of the lake

(iv) the stars on the milky way

Answer: (iii) the dancing daffodils and the waves of the lake

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3. Read the poem and match the following:

The waves The poet A cloud The daffodils The poet's heart

filled with pleasure and danced with the daffodils danced beside the daffodils stretched in a never ending line floated over valleys and hills saw a host of golden daffodils

 

Ans:

The waves The poet A cloud The daffodils The poet's heart

danced beside the daffodils saw a host of golden daffodils floated over valleys and hills stretched in a never ending line filled with pleasure and danced with the daffodils

 

4. Read the poem again and answer the following questions:

(a) Find a word in stanza 1 that means 'to roam about'.

Ans: Wander

(b) Find out what 'o'er' means. How will you write the actual word?

Ans: over

(c) Find a word in stanza 2 which means 'a lake'.

Ans: bay

(d) What does the poet refer to when he says ‘Ten thousand saw I’?

Ans: In a large number of golden daffodils

(e) What is 'sprightly dance'?

Ans: Full of spirit and vitality

(f) Give another word each for 'glee' and ‘jocund’.

Ans:  glee – mirth

       Jocund - cheerful

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(g) What is out-did in 'out- did the sparkling waves'?

Ans: out-did means doing better then others.

(h) Give the opposite of the following words: vacant, pleasure, bliss

Vacant - full Pleasure - displeasure Bliss - upset

Ans: