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    This document contains a worksheet for analyzing William Wordsworth's poem "Daffodils". It includes sections on poem elements, critical appreciation, summary, and identification of literary devices. The summary describes the poet feeling lonely and sad until noticing a large group of daffodils dancing in the breeze by a lake, which filled him with joy. The worksheet analyzes devices like hyperbole, assonance, alliteration and personification used in the poem.

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    DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
    WORKSHEET GRADE -7

    Daffodils
    (Answer Key)
    A) Write the different elements of poem analyses.
    1. Speaker: William Wordsworth
    2. Setting: Lake beneath the trees, daffodils garden
    3. Themes: Nature makes us happy
    4. Context: Man and the natural world.
    5. Rhyme Scheme: ABABCC
    6. Genre: Lyrics
    7. Form: 14 stanzas, 6lines
    8. Mood: Optimistic
    9. Tone: Lonely, sad happy

    B) Write the critical appreciation for the poem “Daffodils”.


    Daffodils is a lyrical poem, written by William Wordsworth.
    It conveys the message that nature makes us happy. The
    poet being lonely sad and unhappy at the lake beneath the
    tree in the daffodils garden. The poet writes about man and
    the nature. This poem is optimistic in nature and has 3
    stanzas with 6 lines. It follows the rhyme scheme ABABCC.
    C) Summarize the poem “Daffodils”.
    The poet was walking around through the hills and valleys, but he
    felt all lonely and mopey. Suddenly, as he passed a lake, he noticed
    a big group of yellow daffodils waving in the breeze. This wasn't just
    some scattered patch of daffodils. We’re talking thousands and
    thousands around this particular bay. And all these flowers were
    dancing. The speaker’s loneliness was replaced by joy, but he didn't
    even realize what a gift he has received until later. Now, whenever
    he’s feeling kind of blah, he just thinks of the daffodils, and his heart
    is happily dancing.

    D) Identify the figures of speech:


    FIGURE OF AS USED IN THE POEM
    SPEECH
    Hyperbole The 6th line, ten thousand dancing in the breeze.’ The poet uses exaggeration to
    describe that he saw a host of daffodils.

    Assonance: 'Which is the bliss of solitude" (i) "And dances with the daffodils" (a) "They
    stretched in never-ending line" (e)
    Alliteration: It is applied for the word ‘h’ in the words ‘H’igh and ‘H’ills.
    Personification: Dancing daffodils, lonely cloud
    Simile Wandering compared to movement of the cloud – simile.
    The second stanza begins with a simile comparing the shape and
    number of the daffodils to the band of stars that we call the Milky Way
    galaxy.
    E) Annotate the given lines:-
    When all at once I saw a crowd,
    A host, of golden daffodils.

    These lines are taken from the poem “ The Enchanted Shirt”
    written by John Milton Hay.
    This poem is about the king who was irresponsible to his
    subjects. He thought that he was sick so he called doctors
    for himself. Whenever the doctor said he was alright, he
    ordered to kill the doctors. One doctor suggested to sleep
    with a shirt of a happy man and he will be cured. The search
    began , but they found no man happy in the kingdom. The
    king realized his mistakes and decided to work for his
    people. This poem is a narrative poem theme honesty vs
    deception.

    In these lines, visual Imagery is used. In 4th line, the king’s


    life passed under his eyes. He could see the sad kingdom
    and all the lives passing by sadly. This poem follows the
    rhyme scheme xaxa.

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