The Prelude

Question 1

poet

Answer 1

william wordsworth

Question 2

• imposed human limitations on nature

Answer 2

horizon’s upmost boundary

Question 3

• strays from iambic pentameter : disruption
• infantile language
• repetition: human lack of ability to comprehend nature
• colour imagery

Answer 3

huge peak, black and huge

Question 4

• zoomorphism

Answer 4

upreared its head

Question 5

• sense of enormity
• biblical imagery
• lack of guidance

Answer 5

towered up between me and the stars

Question 6

• personification
• turning point
• Caesura: disruption

Answer 6

strode after me. With trembling oars I turned

Question 7

• weight of psychological turmoil
• humans are alone

Answer 7

There hung a darkness, call it solitude

Question 8

structure and form

Answer 8

• single stanza: overhwlems the reader
• iambic pentameter: natural speech
• no rhyme scheme: irregularity of nature