Quotes

• What the title of the poem me and what might it foreshadow?

  Title: The Prelude means an introduction which could relate to Wordsworth’s life of youthfulness and innocence
• ”frosty season” and “ twilight blazed” what language device is this?

  Juxtaposition because they are direct opposites of each other. The frosty season represent the freshness/whimsicalness of the outside while the twilight blazed shows the contrast of the inside.
• What does “i heeded not the summons:-“ mean?


  He was having so much fun outside that he did not want to go back inside. This shows his childish, rebellious and carefree side.
• “rapture: clear and loud” - What language device and what does this quote suggest?

  Triplet. “rapture“= extreme happiness and joy

  “clear”= no trouble and worries (childhood)
• Throughout the section what does the continuous caesura symbolise?

  Represents the persons passion, breathlessness of playing, excitement, rhythm is halted mid flow
• ” Proud and exulting, like an untir’d horse” What language device? What does this represent?


  Triplet and Similie. An untir’d horse is a free horse which reflects on the Romantics belief of freedom.

  Believes they are a part of nature.
• “All shod with steel/ We hiss’d along the polish’d ice” What language device?


  Onomatopoeic sibilance. Reflects the sound of ice skating.
• “The Pack loud bellowing, and the hunted hare.” What language device? What is the game compared to?


  Alliterative metaphor “hunted hare”

  describes the game like a wolf hunt/ like a pack of wolves.
• “Meanwhile the precipices rang aloud” What are precipices and what poetic device is being used?


  Assonance adds to the loud and ominous sound. The precipices represent mountains and are the same noises as the children but more ominous and deafening.
• “Tinkled like iron, while the distant hills… sent an alien sound” What is the change? What language device?


  Similie. Iron harsh metal that contrasts the nature. contrast ice too which is delicate while now it’s more hard and intimidating . “alien sound” has connotations of something unfamiliar and strange indicating that Wordsworth feels unsafe and unprotected.
• What does “distant hills” “tumult” “leafless trees” “died away“ “melancholy“ suggest?


  A change in mood and tone to a negative mood due to the weird noises of nature. They no longer feel part of nature or feel close to home.
• “Of melancholy…” What does this suggest?


  Deep sadness and it stands out to referent the new feeling which really stands out to the poems persona. The caesura in the last 3 lines break up and slow the rhythm making it seem more pensive and sombre.
• “…evening died away.“ What does this mean? What does the end stop line represent?


  The Death of the evening could represent a loss of innocence and childhood. The end stop line represents the death and complete end of innocence and childhood.