4. Daffodils
• The speaker was walking around through the
hills and valleys, but he felt all lonely .
Suddenly , as he passed a lake, he noticed a
big group of yellow daffodils waving in the
breeze. This wasn't just some scattered patch
of daffodils. We’re talking thousands and
thousands around this particular bay. And all
these flowers were dancing
5. Daffodils
• I wandered lonely as a cloud
• That floats on high over vales and hills
• When all at once I saw a crowd
• A host of golden daffodils
• Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
• Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
6. New Words
• Wander -To move about without a
definite destination or purpose
• Vales - Valley
• Host - Group
• Beneath - Under
• Flutter - To wave or flap rapidly in
an irregular manner
7. • In the first stanza the speaker describes how
he walked around and felt as lonely as a cloud.
He doesn’t say, ‘walked around’ , but uses the
much more descriptive word wandered.
8. Questions
• Who is the author of the poem?
• What is the title of the poem?
• What does the word crowd mean?
• Who is the ‘I’ here?
9. Figure of Speech
• Simile
• In the poem the poet uses a simile ‘I
wandered as a cloud’.
• The poet is wandering as a cloud.
