Extract from the prelude

• Why is enjambment used in extract from the prelude?

  -The enjambment suggests an uncontrollable urge to convey the power of nature, hinting that he is eager to try and express what he felt.
• What verse is used

  -Blank verse

  -No breaks makes the audience overwhelmed

  -Just as young Wordsworth was with his experience in nature
• What are the key themes?

  -Views of man

  -Power of nature

  -Dominance and pride
• It was ... ... ... ... and ... pleasure'd pleasure'

  'It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure
• It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure'


  -Oxymoron 'troubled pleasure'

  -Suggests he knew it was wrong but his desire to allievate the trouble from his pleasure led him astray
• The grim shape towered up between me and the stars'


  -Personification

  -Implies nature is as dangerous and uncontrollable as man

  -Wordsworth confidences disapears as he has no power
• And through the meadows homeward went, in grave And serious mood'


  -The scene of meadows juxtaposes the deadly mood

  -Shows natures duality from the 'huge peak, black and huge' to meadows
• There hung a darkness, call it solitude or blank desertation'


  -Has realised his insignificance in the face of nature
• A huge peak, black and huge'


  -Repetition shows how overwhelmed wordsworth is by the mountain

  -Power of nature
• What connection did wordswoth have with nature?

  -When Wordsworth was young both his parents died

  -He was then treated so badly by his mothers family he considered suicide

  -So he spent a lot of time in the lake district to escape them

  -This may be why he wrote many poems about nature, it was his escape mentally and physically.
• What was the prelude originally intended to be?

  -The prologue to the recluse

  -part of a 3 part epic poem series

  -it was never finished
• As Wordswoth was a romantic poet, why would he write about nature?


  -Romantic poets were mostly agaisnt industrialisation and authority

  -Wordswoth would want to glorify nature as way to show his disagreement with the unnatural authority and industrialisation