Q. What is the poem curiosity?
Curiosity and Cats and Dogs. In the poem “Curiosity”, by Alastair Reid, the author uses not only opposites, but age-old enemies, as vehicles for his portrayal of two types of people – those who play it safe and don’t rock the boat, and those who take chances and rock the boat just to see how long it takes to sink.
Q. Which are the season mentioned in the poem curiosity?
Answer. Answer: the poem has mentioned 5 different types of season were winter season, rainy season, summer season and autumn season, spring season .
Table of Contents
- Q. What is the poem curiosity?
- Q. Which are the season mentioned in the poem curiosity?
- Q. Who is I mentioned in the poem?
- Q. What do the words crowd and host suggest?
- Q. What does the poet think of when he is alone?
- Q. Which figure of speech is used in when all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils?
- Q. Can you guess what a daffodil is?
- Q. Why does the poet compare the daffodils to the stars?
- Q. Why does the poet refer to it as wealth?
- Q. What is the road not taken a metaphor for?
Q. Who is I mentioned in the poem?
The ‘I’ mentioned in the poem is the poet Brucellish K. Sangma.
Q. What do the words crowd and host suggest?
What do the words ‘crowd’ and ‘host’ suggest? The words “crowd” and “host” suggest a multitude or a large number of daffodils. It suggests the suddenness with which the poet comes upon the daffodils where his first impression of the daffodils is their sheer numerousness.
Q. What does the poet think of when he is alone?
The poet was ‘lonely’ when he was wandering about “o’er vales and hills”. The first line of the poem states “I wandered lonely as a cloud” which indicates that the poet is by himself. He was ‘lonely’ as he wandered about “o’er vales and hills” where he spots the daffodils.
Q. Which figure of speech is used in when all at once I saw a crowd A host of golden daffodils?
Personification
Q. Can you guess what a daffodil is?
Answer. The daffodil is a bright and cheerful flower. It grows as a cluster and is golden yellow in color. A daffodil is such a beautiful pleasant sight that by just visualizing it, one gets off his/her pensive mood and becomes happy again.
Q. Why does the poet compare the daffodils to the stars?
The poet compares the daffodils with stars in the milky way and also with the waves. He compares daffodils with stars because stars in the milky way are widespread and are always shinning as the daffodils were shinning and stretched in a straight path.
Q. Why does the poet refer to it as wealth?
Answer: the wealth which is referred to here by the poet means wealth of joy and happiness;which actually comes from happy and fond memories when the poet saw a host of golden daffodils by the side of the lake beneath the trees.
Q. What is the road not taken a metaphor for?
The entirety of “The Road Not Taken” is an extended metaphor in which the two roads that diverge symbolize life’s many choices. In much the same way that people are generally unable to see what the future holds, the speaker is unable to see what lies ahead on each path.
