the prelude

Question 1

key meanings

Answer 1

pantheism/sexuality /insest

Question 2

one summer evening (led by her I found a little boat tide to a willow tree

Answer 2

led by her meaning that nature set up this opportunity for him so it is not his fault - it is a natural act off nature (pantheism)
willow tree foreshadows sadness
contrasted with the summer setting (symbolic of happiness)

Question 3

the horizons upmost boundary ;far above was nothing but the stars and the grey sky

Answer 3

buy mentioning about the horizon and boundaries he is say tghe our boundaries are allusion just conventions and we should do the thing we want to do romantic poets view
by him saying nothing means that god is not yup in the sky in heaven bc christianity is symbolised as another kind of boundary
we use our own morals and experiences
sky-unlimited
stare -another boundary
symbolises when he started questioningng the boundaries

Question 4

and growing still in stature the grim shape toward up between me and the stars and still

Answer 4

stealing the boat ins symbolic of immorality
mountain becomes symbol of his contiouns accusing him of committing a mortal crime

Question 5

my brain worked with a dim and undetermined sense f unknown modes of being

Answer 5

god has been speaking to him through nature
god is accusing him of do the Wong thing
however there’s a conflict bc it was nature that of which led him to steal the boat
makes him question moral choices who decided what is moral or immoral
getting a dim understanding that he choose he want to be even if u goes against societies moral values or boundaries (e.g sex before marriage ) or insest

Question 6

but huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.

Answer 6

mighty forms suggest guilt rich is why his dreams are troubled
don’t need christianity to teach us right from wrong
if we experience nature fully nature will teach us from right and wrong
forms could be trying to change his mind about norms in society

Question 7

form

Answer 7

one single stanza
freedman so no ridge form
lack of boundaries
pentameter
sometimes they are iambic and some time they a trochaic
unsettling

Question 8

form

Answer 8

create rhythm of natural speech