Excerpt from the Prelude

Question 1

Where did Wordsworth grow up in which the poem is also set?

Answer 1

The Lake District.

Question 2

What did Wordsworth feel strongly about being an influence in his life?

Answer 2

Nature.

Question 3

What did he call nature?

Answer 3

The Great Universal teacher

Question 4

What are children presented as in the poem?

Answer 4

Having a powerful and natural affinity with nature because of their innocence.

Question 5

What darker thing did Wordsworth believe about nature?

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

Name 3 form features of the poem:

Answer 6

-First person
-Blank verse
-Mainly iambic pentameter

Question 7

What was one of Wordsworth’s favourite things?

Answer 7

Ice skating - he taught his children it and did it until an old age.

Question 8

How old was Wordsworth when his mother died?

Answer 8

8

Question 9

Who did he have a distant relationship with?

Answer 9

His father - he died too when Wordsworth was at school.

Question 10

Who was Wordsworth particularly close with?

Answer 10

His sister, Dorothy.

Question 11

Who was he forced to live with in Cumbria and how did this make Wordsworth feel?

Answer 11

His maternal grandparents and uncle - he was very unhappy and they did not get on - he even contemplated suicide.

Question 12

The poem is autobiographical, what does this mean?

Answer 12

It focuses on the writer’s personal life, in this case, Wordsworth’s childhood and relationship with nature.

Question 13

What kind of poet was Wordsworth?

Answer 13

A Romantic poet.

Question 14

What is the poem part of?

Answer 14

A much longer poem which was 14 books long - in fact he died before he could finish it and his wife published it.

Question 15

‘And in the ______ season, when the sun’

Answer 15

‘And in the frosty season, when the sun’

Question 16

‘Was ___, and _______ for many a mile’

Answer 16

‘Was set, and visible for many a mile’

Question 17

‘The cottage _______ through the _______ _____,’

Answer 17

‘The cottage windows through the twilight blaz’d,’

Question 18

‘I ________ not the _______:’

Answer 18

‘I heeded not the summons:’

Question 19

‘______ time It was, _______, for all of us;’

Answer 19

‘happy time It was, indeed, for all of us;’

Question 20

‘to me It was a ____ of _______:’

Answer 20

‘to me It was a time of rapture:’

Question 21

‘I ______ about, _____ and ________, like an _______ ______, That cares not for his ____.’

Answer 21

‘I wheel’d about, Proud and exulting, like an untir’d horse, That cares not for his home.’

Question 22

‘All ____ with _____, we _____ along the _______ ice,’

Answer 22

‘All shod with steel, we hiss’d along the polish’d ice,’

Question 23

‘in games ____________,’

Answer 23

‘in games confederate,’

Question 24

‘_________ of the chace and ________ _________,’

Answer 24

‘imitative of the chace and woodland pleasures,’

Question 25

‘The ____ loud _________, and the _______ hare.’

Answer 25

‘The pack loud bellowing, and the hunted hare.’

Question 26

‘So through the ________ and cold we ____,’

Answer 26

‘So through the darkness and cold we flew,’

Question 27

‘And not a voice was ____; with the ___,’

Answer 27

‘And not a voice was idle; with the din,’

Question 28

‘_________, the _________ rang _____, the ________ trees, and every ___ crag Tinkled like ____,’

Answer 28

‘Meanwhile, the precipices rang aloud, the leafless trees, and every icy crag Tinkled like iron,’

Question 29

‘while the _______ _____ into the _______ sent an _____ sound of __________,’

Answer 29

‘while the distant hills into the tumult sent an alien sound of melancholy,’

Question 30

‘not _________,’

Answer 30

‘not unnoticed,’

Question 31

‘while the _____, _________, were _________ clear, and in the west’

Answer 31

‘while the stars, Eastward, were sparkling clear, and in the west’

Question 32

‘The orange ___ of _______ ____ ____.’

Answer 32

‘The orange sky of evening died away.’