The prelude

• Blank verse - no breaks = audience overwhelmed, like how the poet was with nature when younger
• Enjambment to show poets desire and eagerness to share his story with the reader
• Themes of power and nature

  Dominance and pride

  Insignificance if man
• It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure
• Troubled pleasure
• Grim shape towered yo between me and the stars
• Through the meadows went, in grave and serious mood
• There hung a darkness