(English Medium) ICSE Class 10 - CISCE Question Bank Solutions

Who was Beatrix Potter?

Whose dirty looks are referred to?

What impression do you get of the children after reading the poem?

Why is the poet so much against watching television? Give two reasons.

Describe in your own words the poet’s feelings when he sees the host of golden daffodils ?

Why does the poet say I gazed and gazed but a little thought / what wealth that show to me had brought?

Mention the two moods of the poet?

How can the heart dance?

How is the last verse different from the other verse? Is the poet deriving a different mood than that expressed in the previous verse?

What does Wordsworth compare himself to? Why?

How is he affected by the experience of seeing the daffodils?

How does the poem make use of contrast? Consider the contrast between the poet and the daffodils, and between his feeling before, while and after seeing the daffodils.

What does Wordsworth compare the daffodils to? Is the comparison appropriate?

Identify examples of the following devices in the poem: alliteration, personification, rhyme, rhythm. How do these devices contribute to the overall effect of the poem?

What do you think is the poet’s attitude towards the following 3 things: nature, memory, loneliness?

Which line(s)/stanza(s) do you enjoy most? Why?

Who are ‘they’ referred to in the third line of the last stanza? When had the poet come across them?

Explain the phrase ‘bliss of solitude’ in the context in which it has been used.

What do you think is the message of the poem?

Why does the poet use the word ‘wandered’?