Read the following lines and answer the question :
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.
The poet rejuvinates his spirits by _________.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → recalling the beauty of dancing daffodils
To rejuvenate one's spirits is to make oneself feel fresh and lively again. When the poet lies alone in a vacant or pensive mood, the daffodils "flash upon that inward eye" (his memory), and then his heart "with pleasure fills, / And dances with the daffodils". His spirits are renewed by recalling the dancing daffodils.
Why the Other Options are Incorrect?
Option 1: looking at the waves beside him — Incorrect. Wrong time: the waves were part of the scene he saw that day; the renewal of his spirits comes later, through memory, while he lies on his couch.
Option 3: taking a walk besides the sea — Incorrect. Contradicted: the lines describe the poet lying on his couch, not walking by the sea.
Option 4: drowning into fits of solitude — Incorrect. Wrong cause: solitude is only the setting in which the memory returns ("the bliss of solitude"); the joy comes from the daffodils, not from solitude itself.