The prelude
Cards (33)
- What does Wordsworth recall in "The Prelude (Stealing a Boat)"?
- How did Wordsworth feel while rowing the boat initially?
- What caused Wordsworth to feel scared while rowing?
- What realization did Wordsworth have about Nature?
- What is the main message of the poem?
- What literary movement was Wordsworth associated with?
- How did Wordsworth view Nature?
- What does the extract represent in Wordsworth's longer autobiographical poem?
- What are the key images in the poem related to boy Wordsworth's feelings?
- What does the central metaphor of the ‘huge peak’ symbolize?
- How does the structure of the poem reflect Wordsworth's emotional journey?
- What does the journey in the poem teach Wordsworth?
- What emotional response does Wordsworth want from readers?
- What does the repetition of ‘huge’ emphasize in the poem?
- What semantic field is used to describe the beauty of Nature?
- What does the verb in “trembling oars” signify about boy Wordsworth's state?
- How does the contrast in the poem affect the reader's understanding of Wordsworth's experience?
- Big ideas
- ”one summer evening (led by her)”
- lines 1-20
- lines 21-34
- line 35-44
- “of sparkling light”
- “small circles glittering idly in the moon “
- “went heaving through the water like a swan “
- “the horizons bound, a huge peak , black and huge “
- “struck, struck ,still In statue the grim shape , stars ,still, seemed , strode“
- ”there hung a darkness , cal it solitude”
- “No familiar shapes , Remained ,no pleasant images of trees , of sea or sky , no pleasant images of trees”
- “were a trouble to my dreams “
- Structure
- Poem by
- form