Date: ……………………………………

I wander lonely as a cloud Full Name : ……………………………………

William Wordsworth Class : ……………………………………

Explain the following words and expressions chosen in the poem. Examples are provided.
No. Words/Expressions Explanation

1 Host This means a large number of people of things.

2 “Fluttering and dancing” These are two verbs – actions words – describing the
movement of the flowers in the wind.

3 Milky way

4 “Tossing their heads in

sprightly dance”

5 “I gazed – and gazed – but

little though
What wealth to me the show
had bought”
6 Jocund

7 “In vacant or in pensive mood”

8 “They flash upon the inward

eye
Which is the bliss of solitude”
9 “Wandered”

10 Daffodils

11 YES

12 “lonely as a cloud”

13 “but they out-did the sparkling

waves in glee”

14 “sparkling”

15 “oft”

16 “And then my heart with

pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils”