Extract from, 'The Prelude' quotes

Question 1

‘It was an act…’

Answer 1

‘It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure’

Question 2

‘a huge peak, black and huge…’

Answer 2

‘a huge peak, black and huge… upreared its head’

Question 3

‘o’er my thoughts…’

Answer 3

‘o’er my thoughts
There hung a darkness, call it solitude
Or blank desertion’

Question 4

‘were a trouble…’

Answer 4

‘were a trouble to my dreams’

Question 5

‘She was an elfin pinnace…’

Answer 5

‘She was an elfin pinnace; lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake’

Question 6

‘No familiar shapes…’

Answer 6

‘No familiar shapes Remained, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields’

Question 7

‘Small circles glittering idly…’

Answer 7

‘Small circles glittering idly in the moon, Until they melted all into one track Of sparkling light’

Question 8

‘Proud of his skill…’

Answer 8

‘Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point With an unswerving line, I fixed my view Upon the summit of a craggy ridge’