The Prelude Or, Growth Of A Poet's Mind; An Autobiographical Poem - Advertisement Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B C D C B E F G H IJK| The following Poem was commenced in the beginning of the year and completed in the summer of | A |
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| The design and occasion of the work are described by the Author in his Preface to the EXCURSION first published in where he thus speaks | B |
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| Several years ago when the Author retired to his native mountains with the hope of being enabled to construct a literary work that might live it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own mind and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such an employment | C |
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| As subsidiary to this preparation he undertook to record in verse the origin and progress of his own powers as far as he was acquainted with them | D |
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| That work addressed to a dear friend most distinguished for his knowledge and genius and to whom the Author's intellect is deeply indebted has been long finished and the result of the investigation which gave rise to it was a determination to compose a philosophical Poem containing views of Man Nature and Society and to be entitled the 'Recluse' as having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in retirement | C |
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| The preparatory poem is biographical and conducts the history of the Author's mind to the point when he was emboldened to hope that his faculties were sufficiently matured for entering upon the arduous labour which he had proposed to himself and the two works have the same kind of relation to each other if he may so express himself as the Ante chapel has to the body of a Gothic church Continuing this allusion he may be permitted to add that his minor pieces which have been long before the public when they shall be properly arranged will be found by the attentive reader to have such connection with the main work as may give them claim to be likened to the little cells oratories and sepulchral recesses ordinarily included in those edifices | B |
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| Such was the Author's language in the year | E |
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| It will thence be seen that the present Poem was intended to be introductory to the RECLUSE and that the RECLUSE if completed would have consisted of Three Parts Of these the Second Part alone viz the EXCURSION was finished and given to the world by the Author | F |
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| The First Book of the First Part of the RECLUSE still remains in manuscript now in print but the Third Part was only planned The materials of which it would have been formed have however been incorporated for the most part in the Author's other Publications written subsequently to the EXCURSION | G |
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| The Friend to whom the present Poem is addressed was the late SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE who was resident in Malta for the restoration of his health when the greater part of it was composed | H |
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| Mr Coleridge read a considerable portion of the Poem while he was abroad and his feelings on hearing it recited by the Author after his return to his own country are recorded in his Verses addressed to Mr Wordsworth which will be found in the Sibylline Leaves p ed or Poetical Works by S T Coleridge vol i p | I |
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