the prelude

• 'frosty season' 


  child like imagery
• 'when the sun was set'


  enjambment representative of time, moving from day to night
• 'cottage window' 


  sets the scene and helps readers visualise Wordsworth's childhood
• 'twilight blazed'


  juxtaposition of cold and warmth shows false sense of security at home
• 'heeded not the summons'


  rebellious, he didn't want to go home
• 'proud and exulting, like an untir'd horse'


  zoomorphic imagery, he feels like he is a part of nature
• 'that cares not for his home'


  somewhere he doesn't want to be, he feels more at home outside, amongst the nature
• 'confederate' 


  quite industrial language used, juxtaposing itself
• 'hunted hare'


  volta, change in mood signified by end stop, showing he feels almost attacked
• 'darkness and the cold we flew'


  ominous, reflective of the volta
• 'precipices rang aloud'


  rock face making a noise, could possibly fall highlighting the danger
• 'alien sound'


  feels out of place now, becoming aware of things he never picked up on before
• 'orange sky of evening died away'


  metaphor for his love of nature, his innocence and his childhood slipping away from him