Prelude

• The Prelude: Stealing the Boat(patriarchal imagery)

  One summer evening (led by her)
• The Prelude: (Verb phrase)

  Small circles glittering idly in the moon
• The Prelude: Stealing the Boat(simile)

  my boat/Went heaving through the water like a swan
• The Prelude (oxymoron)

  troubled pleasure
• The Prelude (oxymoron)

  troubled pleasure
• The Prelude (metaphor)

  there hung a darkness, call it solitude
• Prelude (metaphor)

  trouble to my dreams
• Prelude (contrast)

  Towered between me and the starts
• The Prelude (personification)

  upreared its head