Extract from the prelude

• (Led by her)


  Called by nature, its alluring
• It was an act of stealth


  Sly, trying to take advantage and control nature
• Of mountain-echoes


  Tranquil nature / tone
• Small circles glittering idly in the moon


  Describing the beauty of nature

  light, eye catching
• of sparkling light


  The light in his life
• Proud of his skill


  Views himself as equal, brings the focus back to himself
• Horizons utmost boundary


  Nature doesn’t have a boundary making ma seem naive as he can’t see the true scale of nature

  seeks to control / contain nature
• was nothing but the stars and the grey sky


  Beauty of nature being the most important thing
• My boat


  Personal pronouns
• Went heaving through the water like a swan


  Aragonce of man, views himself as equal to nature
• Volta after line 20
• The horizons bound, a huge peak, black and huge

  Repetition, presented as flustered and has lost all the power over nature, relises he is insignificant
• I struck and struck again

  Repetition - panic, he is vulnerable
• Grim shape


  Sinister tone, deathly quality, questioning morality
• Towered up


  Feels threatened by the power and scale
• Silent water stole my way

  Stole his childhood innocence
• Homeward went, in grave


  Questioning morality, realises morality
• hung a darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion


  troubled / living nightmare, lonely in the world
• No farmiliar shapes


  has changed his view on everything, has transformed him
• That do not live like living men


  Nature more important than man
• Trouble to my dreams


  haunting him
• Key themes:


  • Power of nature
  • power of humans
  • power of memory
• The Volta is significant as it represents natures power and how the speaker is overwhelmed