The Prelude

• context - Excerpt from The Prelude


  Wondsworth is reminiscing a winter night when he skated and everything was perfect
• I heeded not the summons'


  called in but ignores their parents creating a sense that the moment is too perfect to miss
• The village clock'


  A rural area as a 'village' is mentioned and shows the beauty of nature
• polish'd ice'


  talking about an iced over lake that he is skating on
• the resounding horn'


  mentions a hunting horn and the beauty of nature
• the hunted hare'


  metaphor shows how the nature that humans have coexisted with is running away from them
• What does 'alien sound' refer to?

  The sound of a train going along the train tracks
• How is the 'alien sound' described in relation to nature?

  It is described as unnatural and diminishing the beauty of the surrounding nature
• leafless treas'


  heavy semantic field of nature throughout the poem