The Prelude Quotes + Context Flashcards
Where did Wordsworth live?
Cumbria - lake district
What inspired Wordsworth?
(2 points)
Lake district
French revolution
What loss did he experience when he was young?
Death of his parents
The poem is an extract of what?
Epic poem –> 44 stanzas
What line shows how the poem may be about winter in Prelude?
frosty season
What line gives an idea that this person is enjoying themselves in Prelude?
time of rapture
What line gives an idea that he has been liberated by childhood in Prelude?
Proud and exulting
What line using sound affects gives an idea of childhood in Prelude?
We hiss’d along the polish’d ice
What line brings the idea of nature creating an enjoyable place in Prelude?
Woodland pleasures
What personification, foreshadows the arrival of adulthood in Prelude?
The Pack loud bellowing
Why would Wordsworth show adulthood to be a cage in Prelude?
As he would experience this early on in his youth
What quote suggests that becoming an adult is odd and not normal in Prelude?
alien sound of melancholy
What does the final line suggest has left Wordsworth in Prelude?
Youth and his Childhood
What is the last line of the poem suggesting the coming of adulthood in Prelude?
orange sky of evening died away
