Extract from the prelude

• ‘A huge peak, black and huge‘
• ‘an elfin pinnace’
• what does the contrast between the description of the boat at the beginning ,’little boat’, compared to its description later ,‘elfin pinnace’, tell us about the authors attitude?


  since getting onto the water Wordsworth feels a new sense of power and confidence, altering his view point on the journey he’s having
• ‘proud of his skill’
• who is ‘she’ in the poem?

  nature personified
• What is the impact of the repetition in the line ‘a huge peak, black and huge’?


  the narrator is at a loss of words, he is incredibly intimidated and shocked by the mountain and nature
• What is the impact of the poem being in one long stanza?


  it’s overwhelming to read, reflecting wordsworths feelings about the mountain