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The Daffodils
| Word | Meaning |
| Wander (ওয়েনদাৰ) | ভ্ৰমণ কৰা |
| Floats (ফ্লটচ) | ভাহি থকা |
| Vales (ভেলচ্) | দুটা পর্বতৰ মাজৰ সমতল ভূমি |
| Crowd (ক্ৰাউদ) | ভীৰ |
| Daffodils (ডেফ’দিলচ্) | এবিধ হালধীয়া ফুল |
| Beneath (বেনেট ) | তলত |
| Fluttering (ফ্লাটাৰিং) | ধপধপোৱা |
| Breeze (ব্ৰীজ) | বতাহ |
| Tossing (তছিং) | লাহেকৈ দলিয়াই দিয়া |
| Sparkling (স্পাৰ্কলিং) | জিলিকি থকা |
| Sprightly (স্প্ৰিংটলি) | প্ৰাণময়, সপ্ৰতিভ |
Class 7 English Lesson 5 The Daffodils
ACTIVITIES
Q. 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?
Answer— The poet Wordsworth compares himself with a piece of lonely cloud floating high over vales and hills.
(b) Read the second stanza. Now find out the following:
With what does Wordsworth compare the daffodils?
Answer— The poet William Wordsworth Compare daffodils with the continuous stars that shine and twinkle on 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
Answer— (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?
Answer— By the word ‘ Wealth ‘ the poet means joy and happiness which comes when he saw the golden daffodils.
He uses the word here because the daffodils was a rich experience that not only made him happy then but even later on whenever he recollected those memories. It was more valuable than any material gain.
(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?
Answer— When the poet lies on his couch in a sad and thoughtful mood, he recalls the memory of the dancing daffodils which he captured earlier in his mind and they takes away all his pain and fills his heart with pleasure.
Q. 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
(e) The inward eye of the poet is the poet’s
(i) vacant mood
(ii) thoughtful mood
(iii) imagination
(iv) bliss of solitude
Answer— (iii) imagination
Q. 3. Read the poem and match the following:
| The waves | filled with pleasure and danced with the daffodils |
| The poet | danced beside the daffodils |
| A cloud | stretched in a never-ending line |
| The daffodils | floated over valleys and hills |
| The poet’s heart | saw a host of golden daffodils |
Answer—
| The waves | danced beside the daffodils |
| The poet | saw a host of golden daffodils |
| A cloud | floated over valleys and hills |
| The daffodils | stretched in a never-ending line |
| The poet’s heart | filled with pleasure and danced with the daffodils |
Q. 4. Read the poem again and answer the following questions:
(a) Find a word in stanza 1 that means ‘to roam about’.
Answer— Wander’d.
(b) Find out what ‘o’er’ means. How will you write the actual word?
Answer— The word ‘o’er’ means above. The actual word is over.
(c) Find a word in stanza 2 which means ‘a lake’.
Answer— The word ‘a bay’ in stanza 2 means ‘a lake’.
(d) What does the poet refer to when he says ‘Ten thousand saw I’ ?
Answer— The poet refers to ‘stars’ when he says, ‘Ten thousand saw I’.
(e) What is ‘sprightly dance’?
Answer— “Sprightly dance ” means dancing lively with full of spirit and vitality. Here, the daffodils are dancing with joy and happiness .
(f) Give another word each for ‘glee’ and ‘jocund’.
Answer— Another word for glee is happiness and jocund is cheerful.
(g) What is out-did in ‘out- did the sparkling waves’ ?
Answer— Here out-did in ‘out-did the sparkling waves’ means the daffodils danced more attractively and passionately than the waves in the lake beside them.
(h) Give the opposite of the following words: vacant, pleasure, bliss.
Answer—
| Word | Opposite Word |
| vacant | full |
| pleasure | displeasure |
| bliss | sorrow |
Q. 5. A beautiful poem is meant to be recited. Listen to the teacher reading to you the following pairs of words from the poem . Than repeat the words after the teacher and practise the pronunciation of each word. This will help you recite the poem.
(a) wandered ——- wondered (e) they ——- day
(b) breeze ——- bridge (f) show ——- sow
(c) shine ——- sign (g) flash ——- flesh
(d) stretched ——- stressed (h) heart ——- hurt
Q. 6 Let us go back to the poem once more and note the following:
(a) The first line (L 1) of the poem ends with cloud.
(b) L 2 ends with hills.
(c) L 3 ends with crowd.
(d) L 4 ends with daffodils.
Note that cloud and crowd are a pair of rhyming words.
Also note that hills and daffodils are a pair of rhyming words.
Now, make a list of the other rhyming words in the poem.
Choose from the box the word rhyming with the underlined word and complete the sentence:
| still dancing mood breeze |
(i) The sun is shining and the girl is ______ .
Answer— The sun is shining and the girl is dancing.
(ii) The forest is full of green trees and the flowers are dancing in the cool ______ .
Answer— The forest is full of green trees and the flowers are dancing in the cool breeze.
(iii) On the top of the bare hill I stand mute and ______ .
Answer— On the top of the bare hill I stand mute and still.
(iv) Don’t spoil my ______ by being so rude.
Answer— Don’t spoil my mood by being so rude.
Q. 7. (a) Rewrite the following poetic lines in everyday English.
(i) Ten thousand saw I at a glance.
Answer— I saw then thousand at a glance.
(ii) For oft when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood.
Answer— For often when I lie on my couch in vacant or pensive mood.
(iii) Then my heart with pleasure fills.
Answer— Then my heart fills with pleasure.
(b) Find two words in the poem that are poetic in form and are not used in prose. Write a sentence illustrating the use of each of the two words.
Answer— Sprightly and jocund.
sprightly → Her walk was sprightly and ungainly.
jocund → He’s got a jocund personality.
(c) Illustrate the differences in meaning between gaze and stareby writing a sentence using each.
Answer— Gaze – look at something or someone for a long time, especially in surprise, admiration.
His gaze shifted away from her.
Stare – look for a long time with the eyes wide open, especially when surprised, frightened or thinking.
Deepak continued to stare out the window.
Q. 8. Note that one word in each of the following lines is wrong. Rewrite the extract below by replacing the wrong word with the correct word of the poem.
The trees beside them danced; but they
Answer— The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the twinkling waves in glee;
Answer— out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A cloud could not but be gay.
Answer— A poet could not but be gay.
In such a joyous company:
Answer— In such a jocund company!
I gazed-and gazed-but also thought.
Answer— I gazed -and gazed-but little thought.
What wealth the sight to me had brought.
Answer— What wealth the show to me had brought.
Q. 9. Your teacher will divide you into four or eight groups. Each group work on the stanza given to you. In your group discuss the stanza given to you and write the main idea of the stanza in two or more sentences. Then collect all the passages and paste them on a chart paper along with the poem, and Rang the chart in the class.
Answer— Stanza (1) The poet was wondering lonely like a piece of cloud floating high in the sky. Then he suddenly saw some blooming daffodils by the side of a lake. The flowers were fluttering and dancing in breeze.
Stanza (2) Like the stars twinkling on the Milky way, the flowers stretched along the side of the lake in a never ending line. The poet at one of his sight saw unnumbered daffodils tossing their heads to and fro.
Stanza (3) The waves beside the flowers were dancing. But the flowers defeated the sparkling waves in dance. The poet could not became full of joy to see the joyful flowers. He gazed and thought what wealth the flowers brought to him.
Stanza (4) When the poet was lying in his bed without thought in a sad moment. The sight of the daffodils came to his mind’s eye. It was his joy in loneliness and his heart filled with pleasure with the dances of the daffodils.
Q. 10. Let’s learn some grammer:
Here are some lines that tell us what the poet said he was doing in the poem. Working with your partner, fill in the blank spaces with the correct form of the word.
One day the poet William Wordsworth was wandering alone along a lake. All at once, he ______ (see) a host of golden daffodils. The daffodils ______ (dance) in the breeze.
Answer— One day the poet William Wordsworth was wandering alone along a lake. All at once, he saw a host of golden daffodils. The daffodils dancing in the breeze.
The poet ______ (compare) the daffodils to the stars on the milky way.
Answer— The poet compared the daffodils to the stars on the milky way.
They _____ (stretch) in a never-ending line along the side of the lake.
Answer— They stretched in a never-ending line along the side of the lake.
He _____ (notice) that the waves of the lake were also _____ (dance) joyfully. He _____ (enjoy) the scene very much.
Answer— He noticed that the waves of the lake were also dancing joyfully. He enjoyed the scene very much.
Later, in his sad moments, when the poet often _____ (recall) the scene, his heart filled with joy and _____ (begin) to dance with the daffodils.
Answer— Later, in his sad moments, when the poet often recalled the scene, his heart filled with joy and began to dance with the daffodils.
Q. 11. Read the poem carefully. Pick out the words from each stanza that indicate or refer to some kind of action or work. In your exercise book, make a list of all the action words that you have picked out. Use the dictionary to find out the meaning of the unfamiliar action words.
You can list the words and their meanings in a table as shown below.
Answer—
| Action Word | Meaning |
| Wander | walk or move in aimless way |
| Float | to stay on the surface of a liquid and not sink |
| Fluttering | flying unsteadily |
| Twinkle | to shine with a flickering gleam of light |
| Daning | moving rhythmically to music |
| stretch | spread |
| Tossing | throw somewhere lightly or casually |
Q. 12. (a) The action words that you have listed refer to some kind of action or work done by the poet. Such words care called verbs. Write down some action words in Column B that match with the nouns in Column A.
| Column A | Column B |
| clouds | |
| golden daffodils | |
| stars | |
| sparkling waves |
Answer—
| Column A | Column B |
| clouds | float |
| golden daffodils | bloom |
| stars | twinkle |
| sparkling waves | dance |
Q. 14 (b) Working with your partner, use the verbs in column B and write four sentences that tell what the nouns in Column A were doing. One has been done for you.
(i) The clod was floating over the vales and hills.
(ii) _______________________________
(iii) _______________________________
(iv) _______________________________
Answer—
(ii) The golden daffodils were blooming beside the lake
(iii) Why do stars twinkle?
(iv) The sparkling waves were dancing beneath the trees.
Q. 13. You have come across the term preposition. You know that prepositions are words like at, as, by, for, to, etc. These words are usually placed before a noun or a pronoun to show their relation to place, time, direction, means, etc.
Look at these phrases from the poem:
(i) over vales and hills
(ii) beside the lake.
(iii) beneath the trees.
The underlined words are prepositions denoting place.
Here are some more examples:
(i) in the morning
(ii) at noon
(iii) on Monday
The underlined words above are prepositions denoting time.
Now read these phrases:
(i) up the hill
(ii) down the road
(iii) to the north
The underlined words in these three examples are prepositions denoting direction.
Here are some more phrases:
(i) by car
(ii) on foot
(iii) with a knife
Here by, on, with denote how something is done. For example,
I cut the apple with a knife.
Now complete these sentences with the correct prepositions.
(i) Clouds float ______ hills and valleys. (on/over/by)
Answer— Clouds float over hills and valleys.
(ii) The daffodils bloomed ______ a lake. (beneath/beside/between)
Answer— The daffodils bloomed beside a lake.
(iii) Stars were shining ______ the night sky. (on/in/over)
Answer— Stars were shining in the night sky.
(iv) They formed a line ______ the shore of a bay. (beneath/along/for)
Answer— They formed a line along the shore of a bay.
(v) He would often lie ______ his couch lost in thoughts. (on/in/by)
Answer— He would often lie on his couch lost in thoughts.
| S. L. No | Contents (Class 7 English) |
| Lesson 1 | Hobbies |
| Lesson 2 | Uruka Adventure |
| Lesson 3 | From The Diary of Anne Frank |
| Lesson 4 | Kindness |
| Lesson 5 | The Daffodils |
| Lesson 6 | Dhunu’s Guitar |
| Lesson 7 | A Child’s Beauty |
| Lesson 8 | Women in Space |
Q. 14. Discuss in groups and write a few lines on:
(a) how you felt after you saw a beautiful garden full of blooming flowers.
Answer— I felt very happy and refreshed after seeing the beautiful garden full of blooming flowers. The different colors of the flowers and their fragnance will remain forever in my mind.
(b) a place without trees and flowers.
Answer— I felt very mournful after visiting that place. Flowers and green trees bring freshness to our mind and body. A place without trees and flowers is like a desert I think.
Q. 15. Let’s play a game:
Sit in a circle. Your teacher will tell you a story. After a few sentences she/he will stop narrating. Each student will continue to narrate the story from the point where the previous one has stopped. Each student is supposed to add four to ten sentences. You may add new characters, events, descriptions and so on. The one who comes up with the maximum number will be the winner.
Answer— Do this activity with the help of your class teacher.
(b) Now, write the story in your own words. Give a suitable title.
Answer— Try to do it yourself and take help from your teacher if required.
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