The prelude Flashcards
What is the form of the poem?
An epic poem
What does the epic poem relieve in the poem?
The awakening and understanding of the power of nature can be seen as such an important moment of his life that he felt it was deserving to put in his poem.
What is the structure of the poem?
It is one long verse.
What does the one long verse suggest?
The one long verse suggests how overwhelmed Wordsworth experience with nature, it helps the reader to understand his emotions due to the immensity of the poem.
What does the use of enjambment suggests?
Suggests he has to blirt out emotion also because it reflects his childhood as an adult the poem reflects an adult perspective looking back at it.
When he steals the boat how does he say he did the action?
‘It was an act of stealth’
When the boy thinks he has been to the top of the mountain and finds out their is more what does he say?
‘Utmost boundary’
When the boy finds out what is at the top of the mountain what does he say?
‘When…a huge peak…Upreared its head’
How does the writer describe the thoughts of his journey after?
‘No familiar shapes… No pleasant images…. No colours
