The Daffodils class 7 Questions Answers SCERT, Assam

The Daffodils class 7 Questions Answers SCERT, Assam: The Daffodils is the lesson 5 from class 7 SCERT, Assam English text-book Sunbeam English Reader. Here you'll get to read The Daffodils class 7 Questions Answers SCERT, Assam. 

The poem 'The Daffodils' is written by poet 'William Wordsworth'. 

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ACTIVITIES

1. Did you understand the theme of the poem ? Discuss with your teacher the following questions orally. Then, write the answers in your exercise book:

(a) Read the first stanza. Then find the answer to the following question: With what does the poet William Wordsworth compare himself ?

Ans: The poet William Wordsworth Compares himself to a piece of lonely cloud.

(b) Read second stanza. Now find out the following: With what does Wordsworth compare the daffodils ?

Ans: The poet of this poem compares the daffodils to stars in the sky.

(c) Read and recite the third stanza. Now find out what Wordsworth means by 'jocund' company from the options below:

Ans: Jocund means happy and cheerful. 

(d) Read and recite the lines:

" I gazed-and gazed-but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought."

What does the poet mean by the word 'wealth' ? Why does he use the word here ?

Ans: Here wealth means happiness and joy which he felt when he saw the Daffodils.

The poet use this word “Wealth” because he felt that the peace, happiness and the pleasant memory which he enjoyed for a long time is worth more than wealth.

(e) Read the last stanza of the poem and find out the following information: What happens to the poet when he lies on his couch in a sad and thoughtful mood ?

Ans: When the poet lies on his couch in a sad and thoughtful mood, the picture of the beauty of the Daffodils make him happy. The joyful sight of the daffodils flash upon his eyes because the joyful sight of the daffodils become an never unforgettable memory for the poet.

2. Choose the correct options 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

Ans: 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

Ans: a host of golden daffodils

(c) The poet compares the daffodils to

      (i) a lonely cloud

      (ii) a lake

      (iii) the stars in a milky way

      (iv) a bay

Ans: the stars in a 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

Ans: the dancing daffodils and the waves of the lake.

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

      (i) vacant mood

      (ii) thoughtful mood

      (iii) imagination

      (iv) bliss of solitude

Ans: thoughtful mood

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3. Read the poem and match the following:

Ans:

The waves - danced besides

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

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

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

Ans: Wander. 

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

Ans: Over. 

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

Ans: Bay. 

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

Ans: The poet refers to 'Star' 

(e) What is "sprightly dance'' ?

Ans: It means full of spirit and lively. The poet felt that the daffodils danced in a joy.

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

Ans: Glee - delight, pleasure

         Jocund - cheerful and light-hearted.

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

Ans:  Here out-did in 'out-did the sparkling waves. The poet said that waves were looking beautiful as they reflected sunshine on them but the daffodils were looked more beautiful than the waves.

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

Ans: The opposite of the following words are

          vacant - full

          pleasure - discontent

          bliss - misery

5. A beautiful poem is meant to be recited. Listen to the teacher reading to you the following pairs of words from the poem. Then repeat the words after the teacher and practice the pronunciation of each word. This will help you recite the poem.

(a) Wandered - Wondered     

(b) Breeze - bridge

(c) Shine - sign                             

(d) Strerched - stressed

(e) They - day                                

(f) Show - sow

(g) flash - flesh                               

(h) heart - hurt

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6. Let us go back to the poem once more and note the following:

(a) The first line of the poem ends with cloud.

(b) The second line ends with Hills.

(c) The third line ends with the crowd. 

(d) The fourth line ends with daffodils.

Note that the cloud and crowd are a pair of rhyming words.

Also, note that hills and daffodils are a pair of rhyming words.

Now, make a list of the other rhyming words in the poem.

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

(i) Still     (ii) dancing     (iii) mood     (iv) breeze

(a) The sun is shining and the girl is dancing.

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

(c) On the top of the bare hill, I stand mute and still.

(d) Don't spoil my mood by being so rude.

7. (a)Rewrite the following poetic lines in everyday English:

(i) Ten thousand saw I at a glance. 

(ii) For oft when on my couch I lie in vacant or in a pensive mood.

(iii) Then my heart with pleasure fills.

Ans: (i) I saw many stars at a glance.

         (ii) When I lie on my bed doing nothing in thoughtful mood.

         (iii) Then my heart us filled with pleasure. 

(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:

Ans: Jocund: I feel happy when I see his jocund face.

         Sprightly: He looks sprightly as he walks 5km every day.

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

Gaze: Rajvir gaze at the natural beauty of Assam. 

Stare: The poet stare at the daffodils.

8. Note that one 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:

Wrong Extract

The trees beside them danced, but they

out-did the twinkling waves in glee:

A cloud could not but be gay

In such a joyous company!

I gazed-and gazed-but also thought

What wealth the sight to me had brought.

Corrected Extract

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.