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Question
Who are ‘they’ referred to in the third line of the last stanza? When had the poet come across them?
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Solution
The ‘they’ referred to in the third line of the last stanza are the lively and beautiful dancing daffodils. The poet had earlier seen them when he was wandering in solitude over hills and valleys and he had suddenly come across a multitude f daffodils beside a lake dancing in the breeze.
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