Excerpt from The Prelude Flashcards
1
Q
What themes are explored?
A
Childhood, loss (power of time)
2
Q
Childhood quotes
A
‘I heeded not the summons’
‘to me / It was a time of rapture’
‘Proud and exulting, like an untir’d horse’
‘every icy crag / Tinkled like iron’
3
Q
Loss quotes
A
‘sent an alien sound / Of melancholy’
‘The orange sky of evening died away’
4
Q
frosty
A
And in the frosty season
To do with winter - end of year and end of day
5
Q
heeded
A
I heeded not the summons
6
Q
rapture
A
to me / It was a time of rapture (intense happiness)
7
Q
proud
A
Proud and exulting, like an untir’d horse
8
Q
tinkled
A
every icy crag / Tinkled like iron
9
Q
din
A
with the din (noise)
10
Q
melancholy
A
alien sound / of melancholy
11
Q
orange
A
The orange sky of evening died away
