Prelude

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Aimee

Cards (11)

  • Romanticism
    • Genre of literature
    • 1800s after Industrial Revolution
    • Seen as a rebellion against industrial economic world
    • Celebrate nature and independent thought
  • Structure 

    Iambic pentameter
    > Mankind wants control and peace
    > Idea of self-reflection and inner monologue
    > mankind are so desperate to control the natural world (Industrial Revolution)
  • Power of nature 

    Single stanza
    > feel breathless, overwhelmed of intensity of the poem
    > reflected with the intensity of the mountain
    > Important transition from childhood to manhood
  • William Wordsworth 

    > Troubled relationship with parents and relatives
    > Both his parents died and him and his siblings were split apart
    > Living in the lake district to escape from his family
  • Context
    • An extract of prelude
    • Philosophical importance
  • Form : Epic poem

    Speaker tells long story of heroic act
    > spiritual growth of why he became a poet
    > Awakening of recognition of power of nature is the heroic part
  • "her"

    Personification of nature
    > Pronoun "her"
    > Mother Nature - responsible for feminine tasks
    > Contrasts human mother and is the superior power
  • Enjambment 

    Suggest overpowering urge to communicate
  • Presentation of man 

    "Stealth "
    > action is morally wrong
    > Man is first presented as selfish
    > Take from nature
    "Proud of his skill"
    > Irony as man is humbled later on
    "Sparkling light"
    > Ethical feel
    > Present participles "Stepping" "Leaving" "glittering" "Sparkling
    > Positive climax
  • "utmost boundary"

    > End point
    > Self pride is misplaced
    > Realisation of minute and unimportance of human life
    "boundary" - noun
  • " A huge peak, black and huge" / " with voluntary instinct"

    repetition of "huge"
    > Stuttering
    > Ambitious and assertive language has deserted the speaker
    > Poets pride and vocabulary has left him
    "Voluntary power instinct"
    > Sense of agency and wilfulness in the mountains presence
    > metaphorical language