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Question
Explain the use of words like ‘fluttering’ and ‘dancing’ as used by the poet.
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Solution
“Fluttering” suggests, flight, which could bring us to angels or even birds or butterflies.”Dancing” is something that usually only humans do. The daffodils are given the qualities of humans and also of some kind of otherworldly creatures, perhaps.
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