The Prelude Flashcards
‘I found a little boat tied to a willow tree[…]Straight I unloosed her chain’
‘I found a little boat tied to a willow tree[…]Straight I unloosed her chain’
‘It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure’
‘It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure’
“like one who rows / proud of his skill”
“like one who rows / proud of his skill”
‘She was an elfin pinnace’
‘She was an elfin pinnace’
‘my boat went heaving through the water like a swan’
‘my boat went heaving through the water like a swan’
‘a huge peak, black and huge’
‘a huge peak, black and huge’
‘As if with voluntary power instinct, / upreared its head’
‘As if with voluntary power instinct, / upreared its head’
‘I struck and struck again’
‘I struck and struck again’
‘the grim shape towered up between me and the stars’
‘the grim shape towered up between me and the stars’
‘with purpose of its own / and measured motion like a living thing, / strode after me’
‘with purpose of its own / and measured motion like a living thing, / strode after me’
‘With trembling oars’
‘With trembling oars’
…”homeward went, in grave / and serious mood….. / my brain worked with a dim and undetermined
sense”
…”homeward went, in grave / and serious mood….. / my brain worked with a dim and undetermined
sense”
‘There hung a darkness’
‘There hung a darkness’
“No familiar shapes / remained, no pleasant images of trees…”
“No familiar shapes / remained, no pleasant images of trees…”
‘But huge and mighty forms[…]were a trouble to my dreams’
‘But huge and mighty forms[…]were a trouble to my dreams’
