Question

1. According to the speaker, where do the events described in line 1-40 take place –utopia, Heaven or the real world? in Wordsworth The Prelude

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

real world

Answer 2

The Prelude , Book 3, Residence at Cambridge, The events described takes place in the real world. Wordsworth talks about his life at Cambridge University

Explanation:

• The Prelude is an autobiographical poem but it is not only the poet’s personal confessions; it is an account of the growth of a poet’s mind. In it he tells the story of his inner life from the earliest childhood up to 1798.
• Wordsworth tells his childhood friends of his adventures as they ride by horse, exploring the ruins of the cathedral that is abandoned. Before this, nature in the mind of Wordsworth was "secondary;" however, he began to value nature "for its own sake.
• Wordsworth’s recounts the time at Cambridge and the excitement he felt to be living and studying there. Wordsworth was also concerned with his social life and education while his passion for nature persisted. Wordsworth did not like his formal studies and felt like he was lazy, but he also acknowledges that his time at Cambridge helped him ready for the adult world so that his simpler life at home would not be possible. Wordsworth youthful disappointment with Cambridge University brings intriguing complication to a perennial complaint
• The prelude follows the declaration of the narrator that "he was not prepared for captivity" as a young man of Cambridge. The dissatisfaction of the narrator is clearly conveyed. The comparison between his former feeling of beatified position – where he can go "masterfully with Nature" – and his experience at university is marked by the lack of autonomy. He has a puritanical and troubled view, which is also the youthful idealism. Wordsworth rejects the deceptive paradise of "schools" in society, both catholic and liberal. He condemns this hypocrisy, not the religion itself.