And dances with the daffodils.
NOTES AND QUESTIONS
For Biography, [see page 51].
Discussion. 1. What picture do the first two stanzas give you? 2. To whom does “I” refer? 3. Point out the comparison and the things compared in stanza 1; in stanza 2. 4. Why does the poet use the word “host” when he has already spoken of a “crowd”? 5. Explain the peculiar fitness of the word “sprightly.” 6. What lines particularly express life and gayety?
THE TRAILING ARBUTUS
JOHN G. WHITTIER
I wandered lonely where the pine-trees made
Against the [bitter East] their barricade,