Language

• • "led by her" is personification of Mother nature
  • Personifying nature contrasts with Humans and nature being far superior as she as tends to the Earth
  • Presents speaker and nature's relationship as peaceful


  " One summer evening (led by her) "
• • Exposes the speaker's delight in taken control over nature and feels powerful
  • Is an illusion as nature controlling where he rows

  " lustily I dipped my oars"
• • "grim shape" Vivid description of mountain connotes his panic and fear of the mountain
  • "towered....stars" link to Humans versus God or Nature


  " the grim shape towered up between me an the stars"
• • "darkness" connotes his realisation of his limited understanding of the power of nature
  • "solitude" He is alone and is insignificant in the face of nature

  " There hung a darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion. "