Prelude 1

Question 1

brought up by nature like a seed germinating

Answer 1

‘Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up

Fostered alike by beauty and by fear;’

Question 2

mutability as nature works along with him and influences his dreams, he is still passive as it ‘composes’ his being.

Answer 2

‘To blend his murmurs with my nurse’s song’
‘That flowed along my dreams”
‘make ceaseless music that composed my thoughts’

Question 3

naked - intimacy as he basks in nature.

not corrupted by humanity, is a unruly untamed wild boy only influenced by nature.

Answer 3

‘Basked in the sun and plunged and basked again.’
‘Had run abroad in wantonness to sport
a naked savage in the thunder shower.’

Question 4

legacy on nature permanently imprinted onto him.

Answer 4

‘On my mind had stamped

The faces of the moving year’

Question 5

drinks in nature

Answer 5

‘drinking in a pure
organic pleasure from the silver wreaths
of curling mist.’

Question 6

giddiness

Answer 6

‘giddy bliss’

Question 7

A few phrases that can be associated with his immature response to nature.

Answer 7

Object of appetite
Less immune to desire / temptation
Not as retrained / lack of control
Instinctive
Description is set in the moment.