The Prelude

The Prelude to me was very dry and boring and because I had already done research on Wordsworth for my presentation it was a lot of knowledge that I had already attained from other sources. However, from the research that I had done for my presentation I found that he was a very self-obsorbed type of writer and that he really thought somewhat highly of himself and his position in life which he had a great passion for. His writing in The Prelude also showed that he believe that the many trips that he took to various places were very interesting in the sense that he believed that he was the only person doing this type of traveling. In his own mind he was very famous and he had already arrived as a poet and that there was not much else that he thought he had to do in order for people to believe that he was an influencial artist during his time period.

Wm Wordsworth “The Prelude”

Wordsworth was a very introspective individual.  “The Prelude”, written over approximately 45 years, showed that he felt his life, and his feelings about his journey through it, should be recorded for posterity.  He had almost a mystical outlook, and would wax poetically about everything, no matter how  small or inconsequential it seemed.  In the first part, when he first goes on his own, his description of his impressions come from his very soul.  When he meets the old soldier, he analyzes his impressions and feelings about him before he meets him and offers to help him.  He makes a lot of referrals to mythological Greek gods, and to God himself.  Extremely wordy just to get to a basic point, but I guess that is what made him so successsful as a poet.  He definitely related to all things in nature, and everything that occurred to and with nature, from the sun rising and setting, to the hills, lakes, ponds, etc.