Key words

• Sublime

  Something inspirational but can also be dangerous
• Volta

  Point in poem where something changed
• Transience

  Temporaryness
• Megalomania


  Obsession of having power
• Romanticism - believed in the power of nature
• “ A huge peak, black and huge upreared its head”

  Repetition - speechless and loss of words

  Enhanced by use of the volta
• Synonyms for power, control/desire

  Grandiosity

  Authority

  Command

  Supremacy

  Dominance

  Prerogative

  Megalomania
• Potent - having great power
• Capricious - unaccountable xhange in mood or behaviour