Extract from the Prelude
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- Extract from The Prelude
- Poet: William Wordsworth
- 1770 - 1850
- Troubled relationship with parents and relatives
- Parents died when he was young
- Lived with his uncle and grandparents who he hated
- Lived in the Lake District and spent most of his time outdoors as a way of escaping
- Romantic Poet
- Early supporter of the French Revolution
- Disillusioned with the violence
- Context
- The Prelude was the first part of a 3 part epic poem called The Recluse
- Only completed parts 1 and 2
- Began writing in 1798
- Main themes: Man, Nature and Society
- After enlightenment, Romanticism was introduced to oppose it
- Romanticism
- A dislike of urban life and an embrace of the natural world
- A love of the supernatural
- Use of ordinary, everyday language
- Romanticism
- The Prelude was the first part of a 3 part epic poem called The Recluse
- Analysis
- Form
- Epic Poem
- In Epic poetry, the speaker tells a long story about heroic acts
- Usually legendary or histroical and focuses on one heroic character
- Blank verse
- No rhyme scheme
- Written in iambic pentameter (lines of 10 syllables with alternating stressed syllables)
- The poet Milton inspired other poets to the point where all lengthy phylisophical poems were written in blank verse
- Epic Poem
- Structure
- One long verse
- Reader is left overwhelmed by the immensity of the poem, also shows how Wordsworth was overwhelmed by his experience with nature
- Helps the reader to empathise with the poet
- Paradise lost by Milton was alsowritten as one long verse
- Reader is left overwhelmed by the immensity of the poem, also shows how Wordsworth was overwhelmed by his experience with nature
- enjambment
- Adds to the sense of being overwhelmed Shows thoughts are not ordered and it is almost blurted out
- One long verse
- Language
- Nature is personified
- 'One summer evening (led by her)'
- 'Upreared its head'
- Poet loses power of posession. Loses expressive and ambitious vocabulary and imagary out of shock
- 'It was an act of stealth'
- Man is presented as selfish
- Society is made of people who are proud and take whatever they want from nature
- 'Proud of his skill'
- arrogant
- dominant
- 'Proud of his skill'
- Shows the young poet was sneaky and his actions were morally wrong
- Deliberate positive /magical imagery
- 'Small circles glittering idly in the moon''track of sparkling light'
- Climax of positivity before the abrupt tonal shift
- 'Small circles glittering idly in the moon''track of sparkling light'
- 'She was an elfin pinnace'
- Exaggerates (hyperbole) for effect
- 'No familiar shapes remained, no pleasant images of trees, of sea or sky, no colours of green fields'
- Repetiton of 'no' shows the realisation of how much he doesnt know
- Nature is personified
- Form
- Poet: William Wordsworth
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