Poem - Prelude Flashcards
This technique shows Wordsworth’s awe of nature
The Sublime
This language technique shows natures femininity
Wordsworth uses Parenthesise (putting something in brackets). In the first line he says: “(led by her)”.
Wordsworth uses this oxymoron to draw the readers attention. It makes the reader wonder why these two words are used together.
Troubled pleasure
Wordsworth personifies nature to give nature more power.
Without the voice
This power shows nature to be more powerful than…
Mankind
Wordsworth notices natures beauty, not just power, in these quote.
Of sparkling light
This description of the mountain peaks contrasts the wide expanse of the lake and sky.
Elfin pinnacle
The way he says “dipped my oars into silent lake” draws parallels with how he is…
dipping into nature
This quote shows how mountains give the world and sky structure
That craggy steep till then The horizons bound
This shows the isolation that the author feels
Silent water
This shows how much power the mountains hold over the author
Trembling oars
The poem is a written very colloquially written, for example this repeated connective
And
Wordsworth uses fantastical language to demonstrate the grandeur of nature
“Elfin pinnacle”
“Upreared”
This poem deals with an important part of Wordsworth’s life, which he spent in the Lake District
His childhood
Wordsworth not only notices the “huge” mountains but also notices smaller details like…
Small circles glittering idly
William Wordsworth spent a lot of his childhood in the Lake District. Why?
He was an orphan that spent his childhood with his grandparents in the Lake District.
What is the point of the poem?
The poem expresses the spiritual growth of the poet
How did Wordsworth himself describe The Prelude?
Wordsworth described The Prelude as “a poem on the growth of my own mind” with “contrasting views of Man, Nature, and Society”.
This sensual image conveys the boy’s feelings of thrilled excitement as he rows out into the lake
Lustily / I dipped my oars into the silent lake
The gentle pastoral beauty of the lake at night is transformed into a grim gothic world of menace and fear
There hung a darkness, call it solitude
How does his experience on the lake affect the poet?
Through this transcendental experience he comes to understand a little more about who he is, and his place in nature and the world.
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?
To fully elucidate the significance they had on his life and, as he puts it, ‘the growth of my own mind’
Wordsworth repeats this word regularly in The Prelude to create a conversational tone
The word “and”. It is repeated four times between lines 24 and 26.
Why did Wordsworth write The Prelude?
Because he is writing about a key event in his life that developed him both mentally and spiritually
