Wordsworth’s Prelude – Boat-stealing | English Literature – Poetry Between the Lines: The Romantics
Hip-hop star
Akala visits the
Lake District to examine the
Boat Stealing episode from
Wordsworth’s poem ‘
The Prelude’ with poet
Helen Mort.
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Hip-hop star Akala visits the Lake District to discuss with poet Helen Mort how the dramatic landscape inspired parts of Wordsworth’s poem ‘The Prelude’. They examine the Boat Stealing episode in detail, and explore Wordsworth’s attitudes to the awe-inspiring power of nature. A group of young poets give their thoughts on Wordsworth's use of language and imagery.
This clip is from the BBC series
Poetry Between The Lines:
The Romantics. In this Bafta-award winning series, hip hop star Akala explores and analyses key works by Wordsworth,
Byron,
Blake,
Shelley and
Keats. He discusses language, form, social context and classic
Romantic themes with a range of poets, rappers and performance artists, showing how the Romantic concerns with love, loss, nature and politics are still very much alive in the
21st Century.
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