The Prelude quotes and links

Question 1

‘To me’

Answer 1

Spondaic foot conveys childish excitement / sense of sublime

Special!

Question 2

‘A time of rapture’

Answer 2

• Intense pleasure of joy to define that time period

Childhood -> intense pleasure and joy!

Question 3

‘Like an untir’d horse’

Answer 3

• Anthropomorphic simile
• Power of imagination of children
• Height of freedom
  ‘Untir’d’ no chains

Question 4

‘All shod with steel’

Answer 4

• Anthropomorphic metaphor?
  Hints at the industrial revolution, freedom beginning to be lost due to industrial revolution

REFERS TO BLADES!!!

Question 5

‘We flew’

Answer 5

• Past tense verb highlights the lack of freedom in current times

’ Flight = epitome of freedom, we = unity

Monosyllabic, simple phrase to show PURE emotions

Question 6

‘Tinkled like Iron’

Answer 6

Onomatopoeia
Hints at the upcoming industrial revolution
Unconventional simile shows childs perspective making even bad seem light and exciting and rich (‘tinkled’)

Question 7

‘Sparkling clear’

Answer 7

Crisp beauty of earth, making everything good

Question 8

‘Died away’

Answer 8

Brief innocence of child hood
Symbollism of the end -> childhood/ innocnece
and yet BEGINNING of revolution -> and so condemn s revolution

Question 9

Hiss’d along the polished ice’

Answer 9

Evocative imagery, sibilance, evokes beuaty, sublimity, fredom

Question 10

‘Alien sound of melancholy’

Answer 10

‘Alien’ -> New, unheard of emotion (loss of innocnce), bad things beginning

Question 11

Link to?

Answer 11

London

Childlike innocence essential to see world clearly
Emphasizes corruoption of industrial revoultion

Question 12

London quotes

Answer 12

'Charter'd street'
'Charter'd Thames'
'Marks of Weakness /woe'
'In every'
'Mind - forg'd manacles
'Blackning church'
'Harlot / Infant'
'Marriage hearse'
'Youthful harlot // Blasts'