The Prelude

• ‘It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure’
• ’Call it solitude or blank desertion’
• ’My brain worked with a dim and undetermined sense of unknown modes of being’
• ’The horizon’s bound, a huge peak, black and huge’
• • Wordsworth (poet) was a pantheist - thinks of nature as a religion
  • Set in Lake District
  • Dramatic monologue
  • Nature is huge compared to how tiny he is
  • Romantic period
• • Power of nature
  • Inner conflict
  • Memory
• ’Moved slowly through the mind by day, and were a trouble to my dreams’