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“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
               by William Wordsworth, pages 29-30

               Vocabulary
               vales – valleys
               sprightly – energetically
               jocund – lighthearted
               pensive – thoughtful

               1.    What is the meter of this poem?











               2.    What does the daffodil symbolize?










               3.    According to the author, what other “happy” movement of nature did the daffodils “out
                     dance”?










               4.    The title of the poem is an example of what literary and poetic device?











               5.    Including the above-mentioned comparison of the speaker, what does the personification of
                     the daffodils, waves, and cloud infer about human nature?















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