The Prelude

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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"

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