power on nature

• nature is a powerful force that can cause suffering and destruction. It’s often personified in poetry to describe its effect in human terms. Nature has the power to change humans and effect there decisions.
• exposure

  nature is personified as the deadly enemy of the soldiers in the trenches. It has merciless, ice east winds that knife of them, and snowflakes that come feeling for their faces with fingering stealth , the men expect to die in German gunfire, but from the exposure to the elements.

  There is no progression in the poem which mirrors the relentlessness of nature. The repeated stand the ending, but nothing happens echoes the monotonous snow, and rain falls on the men.
• storm on the island

  there are two aspects of nature described in the poem and both have a negative effect on the islanders. The island is inhospitable because nothing can grow there. The Earth is whitened, and there are no trees or stacks

  however, it’s the extremes of nature that the island is fear. What imagery is used to suggest that it’s nature attacking the island. It is bombarded by the empty air .
• prelude 


  The almost magical beauty and nature is presented in the poem with a circles, glittering on the lake, and the sparkling light. The narrator initially seems to be inspired and relaxed by nature.
• prelude 


  however, when a mountain appears it is personified as terrifying monstrous being it up here, it’s head in the narrator thinks it’s straight after him. It seems to be this that makes him return the boat. He stole suggesting that nature is able to influence our behaviour.
• prelude


  The poem ends with the phrase a troubled to my dreams. This is a reminder of how nature is not just beautiful and gentle. The narrator has been unsettled and changed by the experience and the pleasant images of nature and his mind have been replaced with troubling ones.
• kamikaze 


  nature is presented as one of the reasons why the pilot turned back. His daughter thought that seeing beauty of the scene below him, compelled him to abandon his mission, the danger of nature is alluded to with the turbulent in rush of waves and the muscular dangerous tuna. This suggests that humans at the mercy of nature, the turbulent waves to crush a boat or efficient could be dragged overboard by a tuna.