Assam SCERT Class 7 English Lesson 5 The Daffodils Solution

Assam SCERT Class 7 English Lesson 5 The Daffodils Question Answer Solution

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Activities

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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 – (i) the daffodils.

(e) The inward eye of the poet is the poet’s

(i) vacant mood

(ii) thoughtful mood

(iii) imagination

(iv) bliss of solitude

Answer – (iv) bliss of solitude.

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3.) Read the poem and match the following:

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

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

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

Answer – In stanza 1 a word that means ‘to roam about’ Wandered.

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

Answer – ‘O’ver’ means above something. I will write the actual word as over.

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

Answer – A word in stanza 2 which means ‘a lake’ is Bay.

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

Answer – The poet refers to the daffodils.

(e) What is ‘sprightly dance’?

Answer – In this poem ‘sprightly dance’ means the daffodils are full of spirit and joy.

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

Answer – Another word for ‘glee’ is happiness and another word for ‘jocund’ is cheerful.

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

Answer – The sprightly dance of the daffodils out-did the sparkling water.

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

Answer – Opposites of following words are,

Vacant – Full

Pleasure – Displeasure

Bliss – Misery

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5.)

6.) Choose from the box the word rhyming with the underlined word and complete the sentence:

1.) The sun is shining and the girl is dancing

2.) The forest is full of green trees and the flowers are dancing in the cool breeze

3.) On the top of the bare hill I stand mute and still

4.) Don’t spoil my mood by being so rude.

7)

a)

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

They and bay are poetic in form and they aren’t used in prose.

They are playing football.

There are many birds flying over the bay.

c) Illustrate the differences in meaning between gaze and stare by writing a sentence using each.

Gaze – I love gazing at the stars.

Stare – You should stop stating at them.

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8) Note that on 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 waves beside them danced, but they

Out-did the sparkling waves in glee;

A Poet could not but be gay

In such a jocund company:

I gazed-and gazed-but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought.

9)

10) Let’s learn some grammar:

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 saw (see) a host of golden daffodils. The daffodils were dancing (dance) in the breeze. The poet compared (compare) the daffodils to the stars on the milky way. They stretched (stretch) in a never-ending line along the side of the lake. He noticed (notice) that the waves of the lake were also dancing (dance) joyfully. He enjoyed (enjoy) the scene very much. Later, in his sad moments, when the poet often recalled (recall) the scene, his heart filled with joy and began (begin) to dance with the daffodils.

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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.

Active word Meaning
Wander To roam around
Floats To move slowly through different environment
Stretch To extend something
Brought To bring something
Fill To make an empty thing full
Thought To think something

12) a) action words that you have listed refer to some kind of action or work done by the poet. Such words are called verbs. Write down some action words in Column B that match with the nouns in Column A.

Column A Column B
Clouds Floats
Golden daffodils Flutter
Stars Twinkle
Sparking waves Dance

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 cloud was floating over vales and hills.

(ii) The golden daffodils were fluttering in the breeze.
(iii) I love to see stars twinkling in the sky.
(iv) Sparkling waves are dancing sprightly.

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13) Now complete these sentences with the correct prepositions.

(i) Clouds float over hills and valleys. (on/over/by)

(ii) The daffodils bloomed beside a lake. (beneath/beside/between)

(iii) Stars were shining shining the night sky. (on/in/over)

(iv) They formed a line along the shore of a bay. (beneath/along/for)

(v) He would often lie on his couch lost in thoughts. (on/in/by)

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