Poem - Prelude Flashcards

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This technique shows Wordsworth’s awe of nature

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The Sublime

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This language technique shows natures femininity

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

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

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Troubled pleasure

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Wordsworth personifies nature to give nature more power.

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Without the voice

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This power shows nature to be more powerful than…

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Mankind

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

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Of sparkling light

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

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Elfin pinnacle

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

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dipping into nature

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This quote shows how mountains give the world and sky structure

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That craggy steep till then The horizons bound

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This shows the isolation that the author feels

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Silent water

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This shows how much power the mountains hold over the author

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Trembling oars

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

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And

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Wordsworth uses fantastical language to demonstrate the grandeur of nature

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“Elfin pinnacle”

“Upreared”

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

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His childhood

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

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Small circles glittering idly

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

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

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What is the point of the poem?

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The poem expresses the spiritual growth of the poet

18
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How did Wordsworth himself describe The Prelude?

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

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

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Lustily / I dipped my oars into the silent lake

20
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The gentle pastoral beauty of the lake at night is transformed into a grim gothic world of menace and fear

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There hung a darkness, call it solitude

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How does his experience on the lake affect the poet?

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

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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?

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

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

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

24
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Why did Wordsworth write The Prelude?

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

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What does The Prelude suggest about Wordsworth and solitude?

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Isolation allows him the time and space to think more deeply