Extract from The Prelude

• William Wordsworth published The Prelude in 1850
• The poem is autobiographical, describing the poet's childhood experiences growing up in Cumbria.
• Wordsworth uses nature as a symbol to explore his own personal growth and development throughout the poem.
• The poem explores themes such as identity, memory, imagination, and the relationship between man and nature.
• ‘One summer evening (led by her)’ (L1)
• ‘A huge peak, black and huge…Upreared its head’ (22-4)
• ‘There hung a darkness, call it solitude’ (L38)