Extract from The Prelude
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- Sound
- The poet uses "and"s throughout to give the verse a breathless quality.
- The Prelude is conversational
- Structure
- There are no stanzas
- writing is continuous
- This extract is a complete story in itself. It starts with "One summer evening..." and finishes with the effects on his mind of the boat trip: "a trouble to my dreams".
- 44 lines and is blank verse
- Imagery
- Language Techniques
- Personification
- he refers to the boat as "her"
- "upreared it's head" is describing a rock's shadow that he mistakes for a monsters.
- Pathetic Fallacy
- "one summer" starts with summer so the reader expects a nice happy poem so it is more of a shock when it turns dark and mysterious
- Extract from, The Prelude
- Sound
- The poet uses "and"s throughout to give the verse a breathless quality.
- The Prelude is conversational
- Structure
- There are no stanzas
- writing is continuous
- This extract is a complete story in itself. It starts with "One summer evening..." and finishes with the effects on his mind of the boat trip: "a trouble to my dreams".
- 44 lines and is blank verse
- Themes
- The night: the poem seems to suggest that you can sometimes experience feelings and events more clearly at night, perhaps due to loneliness.
- Loneliness: Wordsworth is often on his own throughout The Prelude and this is important to him. He can think more clearly and is more affected by events and places as a result.
- Sound
- Personification
- "sparkling light" the word "sparkling" connotes precious items like diamonds.
- "There hung a darkness"the word "hung" is very sinister and also : darkness is scary.
- Language Techniques
- Nature: humanity is part of nature and sometimes we can be made to feel very small and insignificant by the natural world
- Themes
- The night: the poem seems to suggest that you can sometimes experience feelings and events more clearly at night, perhaps due to loneliness.
- Loneliness: Wordsworth is often on his own throughout The Prelude and this is important to him. He can think more clearly and is more affected by events and places as a result.
- Themes
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