Extract From The Prelude

Question 1

Troubled ________

Answer 1

Troubled pleasure

Oxymoron
Line 6

Question 2

Small circles glittering idly in the moon, _____ ____ ______ all into one track __ _______ ______.

Answer 2

Small circles glittering idly in the moon, until they melted all into one track of sparkling light.

Metaphor
Small circles referring to ripples in water left behind by boat.
Line 10

Question 3

Personification of boat / nature

Answer 3

‘(Led by her)’ - nature : line 1
‘I unloosed her chain’ - boat: line 4
Water ripples/ circles ‘glittering idly’ : 9
‘Voice of mountain- echoes’

Question 4

Arrogant about control over nature

Answer 4

‘Proud of his skill’ : 12

Rows in an ‘unswerving line’ - showing off control over nature: 13

Question 5

Humans are small compared the size and power of nature

Answer 5

‘The horizons utmost boundary; far above was nothing but the stars and the grey sky’ : 15+16

Question 6

My boat, went ______ through the _____ like a _____

Answer 6

‘My boat, went heaving through the water like a swan’ : 20

Volta (shift) from nature’s beauty to fearing nature.

Question 7

A huge _____, black and _____

________ its head

Grim _____ towered up between me and the _____

Answer 7

‘A huge peak, black and huge’ - 22
‘Upreared its head’ 24 - animalistic, monster
‘Grim shape towered up between me and the stars’ 25+26 gothic imagery, monsters- blocking out beauty

Lost for words because of natures power- overwhelmed.

Question 8

Fear of nature

Answer 8

‘Trembling oars’ 29 juxtaposes ‘lustily I dipped my oars into the lake’.
‘Struck and struck again’ 24

Question 9

Attitude towards boat beginning vs end

Answer 9

‘A little boat tied to a willow tree’ 2

‘I left my bark’ 32 juxtaposes beginning - dismissive and unromanticised

Question 10

Effect of nature’s power on narrator

Answer 10

‘Hung a darkness’ metaphor 38

‘No familiar shapes remained, no pleasant images of trees,
Of sky or sea, no colours of green fields’ repetition of ‘no’ 39-41

‘Were a trouble to my dreams’ 45 stayed with him

Question 11

What was the message that William Wordsworth portrays

Answer 11

He was a romantic
Romantics always write about nature
So they feared the threat of science + technology

At the beginning the man thinks he can control nature but after witnessing its power he fears and respects it.

Question 12

Structure

Answer 12

Rambling thought process with emotional drive- lots of enjambment.
Childish.
No rhyme
One block