Exerpt From The Prelude Flashcards
(5 cards)
Nature / time quotes prelude
“The frosty season”
“Like an u tir’d horse”
“I wheel’d about”
“All shod with steel, along the polish’d ice”
“The pack load bellowing, and the Hunted hare”
“The precipitates rand aloud, the leafless trees and icy crag” triadic structure, sibilance
“Alien slunds”
“Distant hills”
“The orange sky of evening died away”
Power / time quotes prelude
“The cottage windows throughthe twilight blaz’d”
“I heeded not the summons - happy time”
“Like an untir’d horse That cares not for his homel
“The pack load bellowed and the hunted hare”
“The precipitates rang aloud, the leafless trees, and icy crag”
“Alien sounds”
“Distant hills’
“Melancholy”
“Died away”
Death quotes prelude
“Was set” enjambment
“Summons - happy time”
“”Hunted hare”
“The packload bellowed and the hunted hare”
“The leafless trees”
“Alien sounds”
“Died away”
Form and structure prelude
Two tone = positive and negative
Enjambment = momentum, continous movement of ice skating
Blank verse + iambic pentameter = authentic i ner voice, monologue (ao3 autobiography)
Single stanza = breathlessness of ice skating
Poet the prelude
William wordsworth