Excerpt from The Prelude 1798 *

Question 1

context

Answer 1

• Romantic poet
• traveled to france at the beginning of french revolution
• mother died when he was 8
• grew up with grandparents in the lake district

Answer 2

• nostalgic look on freedom of childhood
• backdrop of nature - made childhood good
• aging, time

Question 3

poem to compare to

Answer 3

• death of a naturalist

Question 3

paras for compariosn - nature, death of a naturalist

Answer 3

• discuss comfort found in childhoos
• btoh shows appreciation for nature
• however their perceptions on nature and childhood when they grow up is different

Question 4

para 1

Answer 4

comfort in childhood:
- “frosty season”
- “twilight blaz’d”
- “I heeded not he summons”
- “happy time It was indeed for all of us”
- “; to me it was a time of rrapture”
- “i wheel’d about”
- “we hiss’d along the polish’d ice”

Question 5

para 3

Answer 5

their perception on nature and childhood when grow up is diff:
- “melamcholy not unnoticed”
- “orange sky of evening died away”
- “sparkling clear”

Question 5

para 2

Answer 5

shows appreciation for nature:
- “park loud bellowing”
- “precipes rang loud”
- “every ice crag tinkled like iron”
- “woodland pleasures”
- “not a voice was idle”