The Prelude Flashcards
Celebrates beauty of nature and elevates to epic status
Relationship between man and nature is worthy of awe
Epic = usually for heroic
Relationship = spiritual because of “rapture” just being outside
alien sound/Of…
melancholy, not unnoticed
Wordsworth has awe as nature helped realise mortality
Industrial Revolution and automation –> inorganic
Reminder of the organic and complex relationship we have with nature and how it offers us more to discover
cottage windows through…
the twilight blaz’d
Delayed “blaz’d” to amplify it and intensify the impact
Natural dominates man made
Windows reflect nature - intensify power
Embraced FR and hated tyranny so he “heeded not the summons”
A rebellion against man in favour of nature
Reluctant to leave nature
A triumph?
Prelude was written after feeling he spent too much time in London
Taking refuge in nature, something that he can appreciate, all his life
the precipices…
rang aloud
Nature shares joys of the boys but also hides their mortality and how their joy must end one day
every icy crag/…
Tinkled like iron
Juxtaposition
Strength vs delicacy
Wanted to prove flourish in a world of contradictions and not reason as writers in the Enlightenment often wrote
Distant…
hills
Hills send out a “sound of melancholy” but are distant as they are unaffected. Being sympathetic as nature is a sympathetic force, but it contrasts its immortality
