extract from the prelude

Question 1

one summer evening…

Answer 1

…led by her

Question 2

little boat…

Answer 2

…tied to a willow tree

Question 3

unloosened…

Answer 3

…her chain

Question 4

mountain echoes ( ) …

Answer 4

…small circles glittering idly in the moon

Question 5

the horizons upmost boundary; far above…

Answer 5

…nothing but the stars and the grey sky

Question 6

silent…

Answer 6

…lake

Question 7

a huge peak…

Answer 7

black and huge

Question 8

power instinct…

Answer 8

…upreared its head

Question 9

grim shape towered…

Answer 9

…between me and the stars

Question 10

trembling…

Answer 10

…oars

Question 11

covert the…

Answer 11

…willow tree

Question 12

my thoughts huge a darkness…

Answer 12

…call it solitude or blank desertion

Question 13

no familiar shapes remained…

Answer 13

…no pleasent images of trees, or sea, or sky

Question 14

trouble to…

Answer 14

…my dreams

Question 15

expand on “led by her”

Answer 15

power of nature

innocent child curious

Question 16

expand on “little boat tied to a willow tree”

Answer 16

mother nature power over mankind

Question 17

expand on “grim shape towered ip between me and the stars”

Answer 17

grim –> grim reaper

blocking the view of natures beauty. shows how nature can be scary and powerful but also beautiful

Question 18

expand on “covert of the willow tree”

Answer 18

the vulnerable child seeking comfort in nature

Question 19

theme of the prelude?

Answer 19

displays two sides to nature:

powerful/control over mankind
beautiful and power positively

Question 20

who wrote the prelude?

Answer 20

william wordsworth

Question 21

COMPARE

Answer 21

the prelude x london

written 200 years apart about londons setting

the prelude- what london is like without mankind

london-what london is like without nature