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THE DAFFOLDILS 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, <span style="background-color: #edf2e6; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">In such a jocund company: <span style="background-color: #edf2e6; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">I gazed--and gazed--but little thought <span style="background-color: #edf2e6; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">What wealth the show to me had brought:

<span style="background-color: #edf2e6; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">For oft, when on my couch I lie <span style="background-color: #edf2e6; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">In vacant or in pensive mood, <span style="background-color: #edf2e6; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">They flash upon that inward eye <span style="background-color: #edf2e6; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">Which is the bliss of solitude; <span style="background-color: #edf2e6; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">And then my heart with pleasure fills, <span style="background-color: #edf2e6; display: block; font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">And dances with the daffodils.

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questions: ansewrs:
 * 1) where was the poet?
 * 2) what did he see?
 * 3) where were the flowers?
 * 4) what were they doing?
 * 5) what does the poet compare the doffodils to?
 * 6) how did the poet feel when he saw the doffodils?
 * 7) what did the poet do when he was back home?
 * 8) what is the inward eye?
 * 9) how does the poem end?
 * 10) What are the main themes of the poem?
 * 1) the poet was in the Lake District
 * 2) he saw the daffoldils
 * 3) the flowers were beside the lake, beneath the trees
 * 4) they were moving
 * 5) the poet compares the daffodils to the stars into the milky way and the waves
 * 6) the poet felt happy
 * 7) when the poet was back home he laid on his couch and remembered the daffodils
 * 8) the inward eye is the imagination of the poet
 * 9) the poem ends: "and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffoldils
 * 10) the main themes are nature, the poet's relationship with nature; theinward eye (the faculty of imagination); the poet's individuality, lonliness.

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Arial,'Helvetica CY','Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;">Vagabondavo da solo come una nuvola che fluttua in alto sopra le valli e le colline quando improvvisamente vidi una folla, una schiera di giunchiglie dorate, vicino al lago, al di sotto degli alberi, ondeggianti e danzanti nella brezza. ===== <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Arial,'Helvetica CY','Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Continue come le stelle che risplendono e scintillano nella via lattea, si estendevano in una linea senza fine lungo il margine della baia: ne ho viste 10.000 con un’occhiata, che scuotevano le loro teste in un’allegra danza. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Arial,'Helvetica CY','Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Le onde accanto a loro danzavano; ma esse superavano le onde spumeggianti in gaiezza. Un poeta non poteva che essere felice in una tale compagnia giocosa. <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Arial,'Helvetica CY','Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> Io fissavo e fissavo ma pensavo poco a quale ricchezza lo spettacolo mi aveva dato: perché spesso, quando sono sdraiato sul mio divano in uno stato d’animo ozioso e pensieroso, esse appaiono (improvvisamente) in quell’occhio interiore che è la beatitudine della solitudine, e allora il mio cuore si riempie di piacere e danza con le giunchiglie.