The prelude Flashcards
ww hears nature following him when he steals bird eggs.
I heard among the solitary hills/ Low breathings coming after me and sounds/ Of undistinguishable motion, steps,/ Almost as silent as the turf they trod.
The mountains becoming alive.
a huge peak, blank and huge,/ As if with voluntary power instinct/ Upreared its head.
these ‘forms’ stayed with ww day and night in his mind.
but huge and might forms, that do not live/ Living men, moved slowly through the mind,/ By day and were a trouble to my dreams.
Cataracts were haunting ww
The sounding cataract/ Haunted me like a passion;
troubling the peace of nature.
I was alone,/ And seemed to be a trouble to the peace that dwelt among them.
fear was imprinted onto his mind unlike the pleasant images of nature he had seen before.
No familiar shapes/ remained, no pleasant images of trees,/ Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields.
nature intervenes
or she would use
severer interventions
Growing up he was nurtured by fear
‘Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up/ Fostered alike by beauty and by fear.’
His frightened visits
‘anxious visitation’
The transient nature of humans in comparison to the everlasting spirit
‘Dust as we are, the immortal spirit grows/ Like harmony in music;’
The harrowing thoughts in his mind
‘o’er my thoughts/ There hung a darkness,’
oxymoronic nature of his fear and pleasure
‘troubled pleasure,’
‘The characters/ Of danger or desire;’
The impact nature has on his actions/reality
‘Severer interventions’
Description of him paddling his ores
‘I struck and struck again,’
‘With trembling oars I turned,’
Description of the mountain
‘Towered up between me and the stars,’
‘Strode after me.’
‘a huge peak, black and huge,/ As is with voluntary power instinct,’
