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"