Prelude 1

Question 1

religious language; nature is like a authoritative high power in the church such as a prophet or a priest

Answer 1

“A prophecy to the open fields I told/ A prophecy: poetic numbers came/ spontaneously to clothe in priestly robe/ A renovated spirit singled out.’

Question 2

referring to nature as a soul

Answer 2

‘living soul’

Question 3

corespondency between nature and his soul

Answer 3

For I, methought while the set breath of heaven / Was blowing on my dob, felt within a correspondent breeze

Question 4

The sound of nature likens to the sounds of mass

Answer 4

Abstruse, nor wanting punctual service high, / Matins and vespers of harmonious verse!

Question 5

He sees himself as a Pilgrim

Answer 5

But as a Pilgrim resolute, I took … The road that pointed toward the chosen Vale.

Question 6

Spirit within nature (frightening)

Answer 6

I heard among the solitary hills / Low breathings coming after me, and sounds / Of undistinguishable motion, steps / Almost as silent as the turf the trod.

Question 7

Reference to the Genesis line ‘From dust, to dust.’

Answer 7

Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows / Like harmony in music;

Question 8

Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! ….

Answer 8

Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! / Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought / That gives to forms and images a breath / And everlasting motion