Extract from the prelude

• Extract from the Prelude

  Taken from the 'epic' poem called The Prelude to Stealing the Boat
• Romantic poets

  • Aimed to present the world and challenge the concept of human existence
  • Aimed to consider how people develop both morally and spiritually
• Form


  • Blank verse
  • Iambic pentameter
  • 10 syllables: five stressed and five unstressed
• Structure

  • One stanza
  • 44 Lines
• Language

  • Oxymoron
  • Personification
  • Simile
  • Alliteration
  • Repetition
• Tone

  • Awe
  • Fear
  • Anger
• Themes

  • Power of humans
  • Power of nature
  • Power of memory
  • P.T.S.D.
  • First person experience