THE PRELUDE

Question 1

Context

Answer 1

Romantic poet
Glorifies nature and presents it as being destructive
Pantheist views of nature - God is everywhere

Question 2

Structure

Answer 2

Volta - line 22
Repetition of “And” - breathlessness
Enjambment
End-stopped lines
Caesura

Question 3

Form

Answer 3

Epic poem - all about his growth - this is from Book 1 which focuses on childhood
Blank verse - unrhymed lines in iambic pentameter - natural conversation
Autobiographical - memory of the past - first person

Question 4

Quotations

Answer 4

“(led by her)”
“act of stealth /And troubled pleasure”
“Glittering” “sparkling light”
“Proud of his skill”
“She was an elfin pinnace”
“Like a swan”
“A huge peak, black and huge” “upreared its head” “Towered” “strode”
“Hung a darkness” “trouble to my dreams”