The Prelude

• Uncontrollable - "The orange sky of evening died away"
• Gradual/Sudden - "An alien sound of melancholy"
• Creates emotion - "Happy time it was, indeed, for all of us; to me"
• Aging - "Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things"
• Change of season/description of environment - "Leafless trees, and every icy crag tinkled like iron"