Excerpt from the Prelude

• windows through the twilight blaz'd,

  I heeded not the summons:


  - summons of adulthood - and shows he wants to be with nature
• like an untir'd horse

  That cares not for its home. - All shod with steel,


  - shows the the children and the animals are linked and the Romantics will link both of them to divinity

  - caesura and enjambement - it can shows turning away from the domestic lifestyle

  - all shod with steel - the sibilance reflects the hoofs on the horse and the skating
• We hiss'd along the polish'd ice, in games

  Confederate


  - the word is emphasized as iit is foregrounded by the enjambement and the comma after it (confederate)

  - it shows that all of the children are joining and not being left out (context is reminded as Romantics are equal)
• So through the darkness and the cold we flew,


  Despite the harsh environment, they are freed by nature.

  Pathetic fallacy"darkness and cold"show passionately enthused the boys are to keep playing as they pay no heed to the terrible weather.

  it REFLECTS the childhood they had that didn't bother them
• the precipices rang aloud,

  The leafless trees, and every icy crag

  Tinkled like iron;


  - shows symbolism

  - the consonance of the similie of the 'k' sound shows

  - the nature seems to reflect the childrens skate movement of iron (Romanticism)
• Into the tumult sent an alien sound

  Of melancholy


  - shows that he is almost recalling this memory so much that he is re-experiencing it again.

  - it can show that he is now alien to him and it is different when he recalls - shows a change and that there is a sadness

  - the foregrounding of melancholy
• The orange sky of evening died away.


  - end stopped line and verb shows that there is something more that is lost - possibly hinting at the loss of childhood
• context


  - wordsworth is a Romantic poet (CORE)

  - the denounced the exploitation of the poor

  - he was born in the lake distrcit - surrounded by nature since birth

  - Romantics believed in equality - didn't believe in social class

  - written in the time as a reaction to industrialisation
• language


  - enjambement

  - caesura

  - similes

  - sibiliance of the 'shod with steel'

  - at the beginning it was a lot more domesticated

  - symbolism of the orange sky showing like an end (like an end of childhood)

  - symbolism of natural and divine taken away from the lake by the clock that tolls

  - analogy of the hunt equates the children with nature

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• structure


  - iambic blank verse

  - enjambement - shows the wilderness of the children compared to the horse

  - lots of syntax - like the unfolding of memories

  - childhood memories is unstifled by adulthood

  - run on line - shows freedom and divinity