Excerpt from the prelude

Themes

Key Quotes

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Context

To Autumn

Nature, Change and transformation, ending of seasons

Death of a Naturalist

Nature, Connection to childhood memories

Living Space

Sense of place

Afternoons

Change and Transformation

Nature

Change and Transformation

Sense of place

Childhood memories

"frosty season"

"Tinkled like Iron"

"The Orange sky of evening died away"

"Through the twilight blaz'd"

"The precipices rang aloud

"Polish'd ice"

"Like an untir'd horse"

All shod with steel

"It was a time of rapture"

"We flew"

"Confederate, imitative of the chase"

"I wheel'd about Proud and exulting"

"Died away"

"Happy time"

"I heeded not the summons"

Nature

Change and transformation

Sense of Place

Awe

Nostalgia

Wordsworth was a romantic poet

It is written by an adult looking back on his past nostalgically- it was a part of a huge autobiographical poem

The narrator suggests humans are separated from nature-"Alien sound"