Explore William Wordsworth's 'The Prelude: Stealing the Boat' through a detailed quiz. Assess understanding of narrative form, structure, tone changes, and literary devices in this seminal Romantic poem, enhancing analytical skills relevant to English Literature studies.
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The poem shows the spiritual growth of the poet, how he comes to terms with who he is, and his place in nature and the world.
The poem shows the dramatic change in the poet, how he becomes a more confident person.
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Second- person narrative
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Written in iambic pentameter
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There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes Remained, no pleasant images of trees, Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields;
Small circles glittering idly in the moon, Until they melted all into one track Of sparkling light.
One summer evening (led by her) I found A little boat tied to a willow tree Within a rocky cave, its usual home Straight I unloosed her chain
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Happier and more casual
Light and carefree
Darker and more fearful
More fearful and more confident
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Its usual home ( l. 3)
Act of stealth (l. 5)
Troubled pleasure ( l. 6)
Utmost boundary
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Led by her (l. 1)
Its usual home ( l. 3)
Straight I loosed her ( l. 4)
An act of stealth
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Rhyming couplets
Alliteration and assonance
Blank verse
Simile and metaphor
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But huge and mighty forms, that do not live Like living men, moved slowly through the mind By day and were a trouble to my dreams (l. 42-44)
That spectacle, for many days, my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes (l. 35-39)
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The horizon's utmost boundary, far above was nothing but the stars and the grey sky. (L.15-16)
I dipped my oars into the silent lake, And, as I rose upon the stroke, my boat Went heaving through the water like a swan
But now, like one who rows, Proud of his skill, To reach a chosen point With an unswerving line, I fixed my view Upon the summit of a craggy ridge
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Serious and carefree
Carefree and ominous
Dark and fearful
Light and carefree
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...a huge peak, black and huge, As if with voluntary power instinct, Upreared its head... For so it seemed, with purpose of its own And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me.
That spectacle, for many days, my brain Worked with a dim and undetermined sense Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts There hung a darkness, call it solitude Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes (l. 35-39)
She was an elfin pinnace; lustily I dipped my oars into the silent lake, And, as I rose upon the stroke, my boat Went heaving through the water like a swan;
Back to the covert of the willow tree; There in her mooring-place I left my bark, - And through the meadows homeward went, in grave And serious mood; but after I had seen
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