Prelude

Question 1

Evening

Answer 1

One summer evening

(Soft, peaceful, loving, contrasting with the later extreme side of nature)

Question 2

Dipped

Answer 2

Elfin pinnace; lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake

(Calm, peaceful, conquering nature, elfin pinnace signifying small and magical)

Question 3

Peak (important)

Answer 3

When, from behind that craggy steep… a huge peak, black and huge.

(Perilous, dangerous, extreme, Volta as it was safe and peaceful and now switches to a very extreme version of nature, repetition of huge shows fear)

Question 4

Upreared

Answer 4

Upreared it’s head

(Like the mountain had an intention through the personification)

Question 5

Stars

Answer 5

Towered up between me and the stars

(Far greater and bigger than he thought, blocks the stars as navigation so he feels lost)

Question 6

Dreams (important)

Answer 6

Were a trouble to my dreams

(Unsettling image of how nature thought Wordsworth a lesson on its power and to not take it for granted)