Grade 11 English HL Poetry Summary

DAFFODILS 2
SUMMARY 2
QUOTES: 3
THEMES: 3
GLOSSARY OF LANGUAGE TERMINOLOGY 3
GLOSSARY OF STRUCTURE TERMINOLOGY 4
VOCABULARY 5

THE WORLD IS TOO MUCH WITH US 6
SUMMARY 6
QUOTES: 6
MESSAGE: 7
THEMES: 7
GLOSSARY OF LANGUAGE TERMINOLOGY 8
GLOSSARY OF STRUCTURE TERMINOLOGY 8
VOCABULARY 9

WE WEAR THE MASK 10
SUMMARY 10
THEMES: 11
GLOSSARY OF LANGUAGE TERMINOLOGY 11
GLOSSARY OF STRUCTURE TERMINOLOGY 12
VOCABULARY 12

OZYMANDIAS 13
SUMMARY 13
QUOTES: 13
MESSAGE: 14
THEMES: 14
TONE: 14
GLOSSARY OF LANGUAGE TERMINOLOGY 14
GLOSSARY OF STRUCTURE TERMINOLOGY 16
VOCABULARY 17




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,DAFFODILS
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er 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.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

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:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.


SUMMARY
➢ The speaker was walking through the hills and valleys, but he felt all lonely
and mopey.
➢ When suddenly, beside the lake, he noticed never-ending lines of ten
thousand yellow daffodils waving in the breeze.
➢ The daffodils danced, and so did the waves of the lake, but the daffodils
outdid them.
➢ The speaker did not realize or think of all the joy it brought him.
➢ Later, when he’s reflecting, he thinks of the daffodils, and his heart fills with


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, pleasures and dances.


QUOTES:
● Line 15-16- “A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:”
○ He expresses the spiritual effect of the daffodils as they dance along
the water and the happiness he felt in the presence of the cheerful
daffodils.
● They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
○ The inspirational moments one experiences in the presence of nature
are not only material/inspiration for the present pleasures but also for
the future.
○ His mind “flashes” back to the dance of the daffodils he saw on an
early spring day. This memory gives him happiness.
○ The speaker writes about emotions experienced and how they
reflected/recollected them in a tranquil state.


THEMES:
- Nature:
- initial state of solitude: a feeling of empathy with the beautiful lakeside
scene.
- The speaker gains a stronger connection with nature.
- Memory:
- Images of daffodils are ingrained in the speaker’s memory and he can
picture them in his mind.
- The descriptions he makes from his memories:
- “For oft when on my couch I lie”
- “In vacant or in pensive mood,”
- “They flash upon that inward eye”
- “Which is the bliss of solitude.”
- Sensation: sense particularly vision, enhance and inspire the imagination



GLOSSARY OF LANGUAGE TERMINOLOGY
Personification: giving inanimate objects human qualities
- “I saw a crowd,”


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