PEOMS - EXTRACT FROM, THE PRELUDE (quotes)

Question 1

“Went heaving … “

Answer 1

“Went heaving through the water like a swan”

Question 2

“The horizon’s bound, … “

Answer 2

“The horizon’s bound, a huge peak, black and huge, “

Question 3

“As if with … “

Answer 3

“As if with voluntary power instinct, / Upreared its head.”

Question 4

“I dipped … “

Answer 4

“I dipped my oars into the silent lake”

Question 5

“I struck … “

Answer 5

“I struck and struck again, / And growing still in stature the grim shape / Towered up between me and the stars”

Question 6

“And measured … “

Answer 6

“And measured motion like a living thing, / Strode after me.”

Question 7

“With trembling … “

Answer 7

“With trembling oars I turned”

Question 8

“Worked with a … “

Answer 8

“Worked with a dim and undetermined sense / Of unknown modes of being”

Question 9

“O’er my thoughts … “

Answer 9

“O’er my thoughts / There hung a darkness, call it solitude / Or blank desertion.”

Question 10

“No familiar shapes … “

Answer 10

“No familiar shapes / Remained, no pleasant images of trees; / Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields”