'Extract from the prelude' by Wordsworth
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- 'Extract from the prelude' by Wordsworth
- Ideas about power and conflict
- The speaker reflects on how the power of an incident changed him.
- The incident involves a huge mountain creating fear in the speaker.
- Nature is so powerful that it's "a trouble to his dreams"
- Context
- 'The prelude' is a very long poem.
- This section is one of many where Wordsworth describes key memories.
- Wordsworth uses these memories to show how he developed as a young person.
- The setting is the Lake District, where Wordsworth grew up.
- Wordsworth loved nature, and was interested in its power over humans.
- Language
- Powerful language to describe nature as "huge and mighty forms"
- Simile suggests the speaker's confidence in nature to start: "like a swan"
- Contrast of pretty language at the beginning with later, darker language: "small circles glittering" , "sparkling" vs "black and huge" , "grim shape"
- Threatening personification to describe the mountain: "upreared its head" , "strode after me"
- Form
- The first person account sounds strongly personal.
- Blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) makes the account sound serious.
- The rhythm makes the poem sound like natural speech.
- Structure
- Repetition of "huge" to show the power and the size of the mountain.
- At the beginning the poet sounds confident; he is then scared by by the incident ; at the end he is shaken and changed , and has lost confidence.
- The opening makes the whole poem an anecdote: one summer evening..."
- Quotations to learn
- "like a swan"
- "huge"
- "strode after me"
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