Poem - Prelude

Question 1

This technique shows Wordsworth’s awe of nature

Answer 1

The Sublime

Question 2

This language technique shows natures femininity

Answer 2

Wordsworth uses Parenthesise (putting something in brackets). In the first line he says: “(led by her)”.

Question 3

Wordsworth uses this oxymoron to draw the readers attention. It makes the reader wonder why these two words are used together.

Answer 3

Troubled pleasure

Question 4

Wordsworth personifies nature to give nature more power.

Answer 4

Without the voice

Question 5

This power shows nature to be more powerful than…

Answer 5

Mankind

Question 6

Wordsworth notices natures beauty, not just power, in these quote.

Answer 6

Of sparkling light

Question 7

This description of the mountain peaks contrasts the wide expanse of the lake and sky.

Answer 7

Elfin pinnacle

Question 8

The way he says “dipped my oars into silent lake” draws parallels with how he is…

Answer 8

dipping into nature

Question 9

This quote shows how mountains give the world and sky structure

Answer 9

That craggy steep till then The horizons bound

Question 10

This shows the isolation that the author feels

Answer 10

Silent water

Question 11

This shows how much power the mountains hold over the author

Answer 11

Trembling oars

Question 12

The poem is a written very colloquially written, for example this repeated connective

Answer 12

And

Question 13

Wordsworth uses fantastical language to demonstrate the grandeur of nature

Answer 13

“Elfin pinnacle”

“Upreared”

Question 14

This poem deals with an important part of Wordsworth’s life, which he spent in the Lake District

Answer 14

His childhood

Question 15

Wordsworth not only notices the “huge” mountains but also notices smaller details like…

Answer 15

Small circles glittering idly

Question 16

William Wordsworth spent a lot of his childhood in the Lake District. Why?

Answer 16

He was an orphan that spent his childhood with his grandparents in the Lake District.

Question 17

What is the point of the poem?

Answer 17

The poem expresses the spiritual growth of the poet

Question 18

How did Wordsworth himself describe The Prelude?

Answer 18

Wordsworth described The Prelude as “a poem on the growth of my own mind” with “contrasting views of Man, Nature, and Society”.

Question 19

This sensual image conveys the boy’s feelings of thrilled excitement as he rows out into the lake

Answer 19

Lustily / I dipped my oars into the silent lake

Question 20

The gentle pastoral beauty of the lake at night is transformed into a grim gothic world of menace and fear

Answer 20

There hung a darkness, call it solitude

Question 21

How does his experience on the lake affect the poet?

Answer 21

Through this transcendental experience he comes to understand a little more about who he is, and his place in nature and the world.

Question 22

The events described by Wordsworth are mundane but he applies an epic quality to them, making The Prelude an”Epic Poem”. Why does he do this?

Answer 22

To fully elucidate the significance they had on his life and, as he puts it, ‘the growth of my own mind’

Question 23

Wordsworth repeats this word regularly in The Prelude to create a conversational tone

Answer 23

The word “and”. It is repeated four times between lines 24 and 26.

Question 24

Why did Wordsworth write The Prelude?

Answer 24

Because he is writing about a key event in his life that developed him both mentally and spiritually

Question 25

What does The Prelude suggest about Wordsworth and solitude?

Answer 25

Isolation allows him the time and space to think more deeply