Extract From The Perlude

Question 1

Who wrote The prelude

Answer 1

William Wordsworth

Question 2

William Wordsworth context

Answer 2

He was born in the lake district which influenced his poetry
The prelude was released after his death
He believed nature controlled man

Question 3

An extract from the Prelude key quotes

Answer 3

Led by her - nature is presented as kind and gentle (feminine)

Troubled pleasure - oxymoron, enjoyment, desire and guilt

Unswerving line → determined
Fixed my view → determined

Huge peak black and huge → darkness, monosyllabic wprds reinforce inability to react
Grim shape → death / dominace of nature
Towered → large dominating
Trembling oars → physical response (shows significance(

Hung a darkness call it solitude → confusion, fear
No familiar shapes → desertion by nature, abandoned
Huge and mighty forms → power, force, fear
Like living men moved slowly through the mind → inescapable
Trouble to my dreams → constant inescapable

Question 4

An extract from the Prelude structure

Answer 4

Extract is split into 3 parts

Confidence
Fear (awe)
Reflection (fear)

This shows his journey and how the sublimity of nature has scared him, and effected him permanently

Question 5

An extract from the Prelude Summary

Answer 5

Wordsworth describes how ge went out on a boat at night and saw a mountain

The mountains presence scared him and left him toriubled

Question 6

An extract from the Prelude Tones

Answer 6

Confidence
Fear
Reflection
Despair
Adventure
Arrogance
Secrecy