The Prelude
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- Created on: 24-05-18 12:33
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- The Prelude
- Form
- First person
- Blank verse
- Regular rhythm
- Structure
- Tone light and carefree
- Mountain appears, fearful tone
- Reflection, pensive
- Context
- Part of an autobiographical 13-book-long poem
- By telling the story of his life shows how he came to be a poet
- Section based on schooldays in Lake District
- Romantic poet, tries to show that nature made him a better person
- Quotes
- "She was an elfin pinnace"
- "A little boat tied to a willow tree/Within a rocky cove, its usual home."
- "measured motion like a living thing"
- "With trembling oars I turned"
- "in grave/And serious mood;"
- "I struck and struck again,/And growing still in stature the grim shape/Towered up between me and the stars"
- "huge and mighty forms, that do not live/Like living men"
- "The horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge"
- "an act of stealth/And troubled pleasure"
- "Small circles glittering idly in the moon/Until they melted all into one track/Of sparkling light"
- "Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point/With an unswerving line"
- "o'er my thoughts/There hung a darkness, call it solitude/Or blank desertion"
- Form
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