🚣🏻‍♂️ extract from, the prelude quotes

Question 1

• extract from, the prelude
• nature is personified
• feminine task of nurturing
• superior power

Answer 1

‘(led by her)’ & ‘Leaving behind her still’

Question 2

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• connotations of sly and surreptitious
• selfish by taking what he wants
• pride of man feeling dominant
• oxymoronic phrase no right to stealing but feel entitled to enjoy nature believing in control

Answer 2

‘It was an act of stealth / And troubled pleasure’

Question 3

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• decieved into a sense of control
• but nature chose the point as a destination where he would be humbled
• only when mankind tries to work against nature that it becomes arduous

Answer 3

‘Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point’

Question 4

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• the end point
• true shock and realization
• how minute human life is when contrasted to the vast array of nature

Answer 4

‘The horizon’s utmost boundary’

Question 5

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• he realized his ignorance and limited understanding of the extent and power of nature
• dark and lonely

Answer 5

‘There hung a darkness, call it solitude / Or blank desertion’