Excerpt from the Prelude Flashcards
Where did Wordsworth grow up in which the poem is also set?
The Lake District.
What did Wordsworth feel strongly about being an influence in his life?
Nature.
What did he call nature?
The Great Universal teacher
What are children presented as in the poem?
Having a powerful and natural affinity with nature because of their innocence.
What darker thing did Wordsworth believe about nature?
That it had a darker side that inspired awe and wonder - he called this the sublime - powerful moments of this could open your mind to deeper, more philosophical thoughts.
Name 3 form features of the poem:
-First person
-Blank verse
-Mainly iambic pentameter
What was one of Wordsworth’s favourite things?
Ice skating - he taught his children it and did it until an old age.
How old was Wordsworth when his mother died?
8
Who did he have a distant relationship with?
His father - he died too when Wordsworth was at school.
Who was Wordsworth particularly close with?
His sister, Dorothy.
Who was he forced to live with in Cumbria and how did this make Wordsworth feel?
His maternal grandparents and uncle - he was very unhappy and they did not get on - he even contemplated suicide.
The poem is autobiographical, what does this mean?
It focuses on the writer’s personal life, in this case, Wordsworth’s childhood and relationship with nature.
What kind of poet was Wordsworth?
A Romantic poet.
What is the poem part of?
A much longer poem which was 14 books long - in fact he died before he could finish it and his wife published it.
‘And in the ______ season, when the sun’
‘And in the frosty season, when the sun’
‘Was ___, and _______ for many a mile’
‘Was set, and visible for many a mile’
‘The cottage _______ through the _______ _____,’
‘The cottage windows through the twilight blaz’d,’
‘I ________ not the _______:’
‘I heeded not the summons:’
‘______ time It was, _______, for all of us;’
‘happy time It was, indeed, for all of us;’
‘to me It was a ____ of _______:’
‘to me It was a time of rapture:’
‘I ______ about, _____ and ________, like an _______ ______, That cares not for his ____.’
‘I wheel’d about, Proud and exulting, like an untir’d horse, That cares not for his home.’
‘All ____ with _____, we _____ along the _______ ice,’
‘All shod with steel, we hiss’d along the polish’d ice,’
‘in games ____________,’
‘in games confederate,’
‘_________ of the chace and ________ _________,’
‘imitative of the chace and woodland pleasures,’
