
That flow'd along my dreams? For this, didst Thou, 0 Derwent! travelling over.
his alder shades and rocky falls, And from his fords and shallows, sent a voice
\Vas it for this: That one, the fairest of all Riv_ers, lov'd To blend his murmurs with my Nurse's song, And from. political, which he had considered for a major work. as ~he poet deplnres his failure to hav~ seized and developed one of the many themes, chiefly.
In- the first part of this essay I should like, somewhat in the idiom o£ th.e poem, ~o 'follow through this story with an eye to the persistent water images.
come to feel,_ is -dearly dominant in this P,Oem, which. fo~n tain, water-fall or sea-,-"waters running, f~tling, or asleep." Water imagery, we. THE WATE~ SYMBOL IN THE PRELUDE (1805-6) IN vVordsworth's The Pre!ude1 we- are continually seeing take, brook, In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: