The Prelude

Question 1

Author

Answer 1

William Wordsworth

Question 2

Context

Answer 2

• Wordsworth was an aughtobiographical poem
• Romanticism
• ice skating was new fashion buy people romanticised it into an escape into solitude

Question 3

Structure/ plot

Answer 3

Recalling a memory of ice skating and how lit it was then reflects, and gains maturity and a greater awareness of nature

Question 4

When is it set

Answer 4

At twighlight which is a liminal time which emphasise the moment of change in the poem (the melancholy reflection)

Question 5

Quote that shows that the ice skating was joyous and also an escape into solitude

Answer 5

“It was a time of rapture”

Question 6

Metaphor of hunting which represents individual experience of ice skating almost taken out of themselves, they are in awe and overwhelmed by this—> sublime
The word pack links to the wolves but also the people he’s with almost like he has been connected with them like a wolves bond.

Answer 6

“the pack loud and bellowing and the hunted hair”

Question 7

Quote about the sound at the end, which shows the narrator acknowledges the change emotion but lets it happen. The sound juxtaposes the “bellowing” of the hunt, but presents the romantic understand of the Highs and Lows and that’s just being human. Maturity. The double negative imply he’s not engaging but just observing and living in the moment

Answer 7

alien sound of melancholy, not unnoticed”

Question 8

Soundscape

Answer 8

“All shod with steel, we hissed upon the polished ice” the sibilance helps the reader feel immersed and understand that the pleasure lies in the movement and freedom.