KSEEB Class 10 · English (1st language) · KTBS Revised 2024-25
The Stolen Boat
Chapter summary, hard words and model exam answers for Karnataka Board Class 10 English.
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About the author
William Wordsworth (1770–1850), major English Romantic poet. "The Stolen Boat" is an extract from The Prelude (Book I) recalling a childhood row on Ullswater and the guilt and awe nature awakened.
Summary
Young Wordsworth recalls growing among lakes and mountains - freedom and temptation together.
Young Wordsworth recalls growing among lakes and mountains - freedom and temptation together.
One summer dawn he takes a shepherd's boat without permission, rowing alone into the lake.
One summer dawn he takes a shepherd's boat without permission, rowing alone into the lake.
Pleased at first, he sees a huge peak rise blackly and appear to follow him - nature becomes alive and accusing.
Pleased at first, he sees a huge peak rise blackly and appear to follow him - nature becomes alive and accusing.
He hurries back, leaves the boat, and walks home with a heavy conscience.
He hurries back, leaves the boat, and walks home with a heavy conscience.
The memory haunts him - not police but nature itself judges the theft.
The memory haunts him - not police but nature itself judges the theft.
Childhood experience shapes the poet's sense of nature as moral and sublime power.
Childhood experience shapes the poet's sense of nature as moral and sublime power.
Hard words & meanings
| skiff | small light rowing boat |
| sublime | grand and awe-inspiring, often frightening |
| conscience | moral awareness that punishes guilt |
| personification | treating the peak as if it strides and pursues |
| prelude | Wordsworth's long autobiographical poem The Prelude |
| shepherd | person who tends sheep - owner of boat |
| haunting | returning persistently to the mind |
| solitude | state of being alone on the lake |
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