Extract from, the Prelude - William Wordsworth

• "Troubled Pleasure," - uses a oxymoron to show that he feels some guilt for stealing the boat, but it feels good all the same.
• "Went heaving through the water like a swan;" - simile and a oxymoron to show how the boat moved gracefully and elegantly.
• "a huge peak, black and huge" - change in tone in The Prelude can be seen. It shows that nature isn't what it seemed - it is powerful and can be seen as a monster.
• "By day, and were a trouble to my dreams." - his encounter has changed him.
• Themes:

  • insignificance of man
  • fragility and morality
• • mankind small compared to nature - storm on the island
  • confident in the beginning
• Structure :

  • blank verse , enjambment and caesura
  • cyclical structure