the prelude

• | wordsworth

  • Romantic poet
  • embraced nature!
  • supporter of french revolution
  • spent most time outdoors to escape relatives he didn’t like
  • relationship with nature
  • felt as an adult that NATURE can teach abt LIFE & AUTHORITY
• | romanticism

  • shift needed from critiquing society, instead of enlightenment, romanticism was made

  1. dislike of urban life, embracing nature (as a reaction to the industrial revolution)
  2. love of supernatural
  3. use of ordinary, everyday language

  • these 3 elements are present throughout the prelude
  • takes place in the countryside
  • supernatural elements of the description of nature
  • simple language used