The Prelude: Stealing the Boat
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- Created on: 06-12-18 17:28
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- The Prelude: Stealing the Boat
- Form
- First person narrative.
- Describes turning point in poets life
- Uses blank verse (un-rhymed verse in Iambic Pentameter
- Poem needs to sound serious and important.
- Regular rhythm helps it sound like natural speech.
- Structure
- Three Main Sections
- 1. Tone is fairly light and carefree.
- 2. Distinct change when the mountain appears. Tone becomes darker and more fearful.
- 3. Narrator reflects on how the experience has changed him.
- Three Main Sections
- Beautiful Language
- Poem begins with a series of pretty, pastoral images of nature.
- Confident Language
- Narrator appears sure of himself at first.
- almost arrogant in his view of himself and his place in the world
- Narrator appears sure of himself at first.
- Dramatic Language
- Initial glimpse of threatening language becomes more intense after the mountain has appeared.
- Narrator comes to terms with how powerful nature really is.
- Fearful Language
- Narrator is far less confident at the end of the extract.
- Troubled by 'huge and mighty forms' of the nature he's seen.
- Experience has a haunting effect on him.
- Form
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