Exerpt from 'The Prelude'

Question 1

Poet?

Answer 1

William Wordsworth

Question 2

Form:

Answer 2

First person narrative

Blank verse and enjambment

Question 3

Structure:

Answer 3

Two main sections:
1 - The fun the children are having - light tone and carefree
2 - More serious and the narrator shows a greater awareness of nature

Question 4

About:

Answer 4

An adult looking back at his childhood memories.
The narrator is playing outside and its getting dar, but instead of going home he stays ice skating because its more fun. The narrator then suggests how distanced humans are from nature.

Question 5

Context:

Answer 5

The prelude is a huge poem of 14 books, this exerpt is from the first book.

Question 6

Q - The cottages calling him home

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Q - Rebelling to going home and staying out ice skating

Answer 7

‘I heeded not the summons’

Question 8

Q - Youthful energy and careless joy

Answer 8

‘Proud and exulting, like an untir’d horse’

Question 9

Q - Turning point (volta)

Answer 9

‘Meanwhile, the precipices rang’

Question 10

Q - Sibilance sounds like the ice skating

Answer 10

‘leafless trees, and every icy crag tinkled like iron, while the distant hills’

Question 11

Q - How out of tune humans are with nature

Answer 11

‘an alien sound of melancholy, not unnoticed’