William Wordsworth

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Wordsworth was formost the

1. poet who wrote about the supernatural
2. poet who wrote about the medieval past
3. poet who wrote about nature
4. poet who wrote about feelings

• Wrote ‘the Lyrical Ballads’ together with Samuel Taylor Coleridge which officially started the Romantic period in England,
• Wrote dark poetry at first, about social injustice
  
• Was inspired by his immediate surroundings (Lake district) and his childhood.
  
• Spent some years in France, during the French Revolution, and fathered a daughter there.
  
• Married Mary Hutchinson
  
• Had a neurotic sister, Dorothy, for whom he took care until she died
  

Some vocabulary exercises. 

to help you understand the poem

STANZA 1

In which picture do you see a daffodil?

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Vocabulary - Sleep de vertaling naar het juiste woord

1. to wander

2. vales

3. a host

4. to flutter

5. o'er

1

4

5

2

3

to walk around slowly without any clear purpose 

A large group of people

Another word for valleys.

A contraction of "over."

to make a series of quick delicate movements

Find the correct order

When all at once I saw a crowd

That floats on high o'ver vales and hills

I wandered lonely as a cloud

Beside the lake, beneath the trees.

A host, of golden daffodils

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze

Which of the following identifies the theme of the poem?

1. The beauty of nature brings people pleasure.
2. Nature reflects the variety of emotions that humans feel.
3. Humans rarely appreciate the beauty of nature that surrounds them.
4. Nature is the best inspiration for hopeful artists.

Which detail from the text best shows the theme of the poem?

1. “I wandered lonely as a cloud / That floats on high o'er vales and hills,” (Lines 1-2)
2. “A poet could not but be gay, / In such a jocund company:” (Lines 15-16)
3. “I gazed — and gazed — but little thought / What wealth the show to me had brought:” (Lines 17-18)
4. “In vacant or in pensive mood, / They flash upon that inward eye” (Lines 20-21)

For oft, when on my couch I lie / In vacant or in pensive mood, / They flash upon that inward eye ----- What poetic device is 'inward eye'?

1. Sonnet
2. Metaphor
3. Simile
4. Enjambment

How does the poet’s use of sound influence the mood of the poem?

1. The poet uses a predictable rhyme scheme to create a cheerful mood.
2. The poet uses free verse to create a serious mood.
3. The poet uses repetition to develop the feeling that nature is constant.
4. The poet emphasizes the pleasures of nature through alliteration.