Context/Abt the Poet

• Written by William Wordsworth
• Wordsworth was a Romantic poet
• Wordsworths parents died when he was young and he spent a lot of time in nature, which became a huge influence
• Wordsworth lived in the Lake District
• Wordsworth was Poet Laureate from 1843-1850
• Wordsworth supported the French Revolution
• Wordsworth was very religious
• Wordsworth was very affected by the death of his brother in 1805
• Wordsworth thought negatively of the Industrial Revolution
• Began the Prelude in 1805, but it was not published until after his death
• Romantic poem: shows nature as a moral and spiritual guide, shows psychology of a young boy and his intense feeling of guilt, shows attractiveness of wrong doing and effects of guilty conscience, deep love for nature.