the prelude

• the title represents a part about his life as it is taken from a longer poem
• the poem is set in the lake district when Wordsworth was a child
• the themes in this poem are nature and place
• "I heeded not the summons"
• "the orange sky of evening died away"
• Wordsworth was a romantic poet
• "not a voice was idle"
• "it was a time of rapture"
• written in the 19th century and published after he died
• "twilight blaz'd"