Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Extract From, The Prelude
- William Wordsworth
- 'Blank desertion' - Adjective, noun, left alone, confused
- 'Trembling' - Adjective,
scared, fear, guilt
- 'Rocky cove' - Noun, hidden
- 'Troubled pleasure' - Oxymoron, hit
of sinister, likes it, never told no
- Spiritual growth
- 'Stealth' Noun, sneaky
- Published after death
- 'Heaving' - Adjective, violent, change
- 'Covert' - Noun,
protected, safe
- 1 long stanza, enjambment - Wants
to get it out, leaves us breathless
- Reflection, loneliness,
threat, temptation
- 'Power instinct' - Noun,
emphasising nature's power
- Nature has the power to change us
- Epic poem, blank verse
- 'Led by her' - Pronoun, personification,
childhood, mother figure?
- 'Usual' - Adjective,
familiar, always there
- Conversational, personal
- 'Unloosed her chain' - Personification,
noun, stole boat, setting it free
- 'Glittering idly' - Adjective,
soft imagery, supernatural
- 'Mountain-echoes' - Something dark, nature no happy
- 'Stars' 'Grey' - Nouns, contrast, light and dark
- 'Lustily' - Adverb, pleasure,
first sexual experience
- 'Still' - Adverb, calm
- 'Like a swan' - Simile, noun,
elegant, graceful, ability to row
- 'Huge' - Repetition, adjective, intimidating,
turning point, transition to adulthood
- 'Moon' - Noun, erie, night time
- 'No' - Repetition, non longer
knows nature, not familiar
- 'Sparkling light' -
Adjective, magical
- 'Unswerving line' - Adjective,
noun, skilled, done before
- 'Grave' - No longer
enjoying, realised
mistake, take to grave
- 'Silent lake' - Adjective, noun, repetition, lonely, alone, peaceful
- 'Upreared its head' - Verb,
pronoun, personification, monster
- 'Solitude' - Noun, alone,
- 'Still in stature [...] so it seemed, with
purpose of its own' - Sibilance, hissing
- 'Towered' - Adjective, big, power over man
- 'Serious mood' - Not fun,
adult, changed him
- 'For many days' - Long
lasting, can't forget
- 'Hung a darkness' - Adjective, noun,
always there, hung onto him
- 'Trouble to my dreams' - Nouns, haunting
dreams, inescapeable, can't escape memory
- 'Huge and mighty form' - Adjectives, accepts
natures dominance, power over men