The Prelude

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Who wrote the Prelude?
William wordsworth
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What inspired them to write the Prelude?
Wordsworth wanted to write about his journey into becoming a poet.
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What does the title mean?
An introduction to something, this reflects the poem as the memories he talks about starts and develops his career and him as a poet.
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What was the poets purpose?
The Prelude stresses this spiritual communion at the points where man and nature meet and in the realisation that man is just a part of Nature's consciousness.
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What is the poem about?
It is an autobiography about the "Growth of a Poet's Mind", tells episodes from his early life and how they helped him as he developed into a poet, consitsting of of his childhood, his school days, Grasmere where he settled, a tour through the france
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What are some key quotes?
"Troubled Pleasure," "Went heaving through the water like a swan;" "a huge peak, black and huge," "were a trouble to my dreams."
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Structure
Threat, beauty
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