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The Prelude
- Language
- Wordsworth effectively describes the
night-time atmosphere with his choice of
images:
- "Small circles glittering idly in the moon, Until
they melted all into one track Of sparkling light."
- "Small circles glittering idly in the moon, Until
they melted all into one track Of sparkling light."
- Personification is also used by Wordsworth: he
refers to the boat as "her" (which is quite common
in literature from that historic period) and the
mountain peak comes alive and chases him:
- This could be to show his connection to the boat and how it
apeals to him or just because of the historic reasons
- This could be to show his connection to the boat and how it
apeals to him or just because of the historic reasons
- The poem has a Iambic Pentameter
- This could be used to give the poem some flow as it is very long
- This could be used to give the poem some flow as it is very long
- THEMES
- Nature: humanity is part of nature and sometimes we can
be made to feel very small and insignificant by the natural
world.
- The night: the poem seems to suggest that you can
sometimes experience feelings and events more clearly
at night, perhaps due to loneliness.
- Nature: humanity is part of nature and sometimes we can
be made to feel very small and insignificant by the natural
world.
- Sudden change in subject
- This could be to show how quicly the mountains seemed to get closer
- This could be to show how quicly the mountains seemed to get closer
- Wordsworth effectively describes the
night-time atmosphere with his choice of
images:
- Context
- It is a long autobiographical
poem in 14 sections. The first
version was written in 1798
but he continued to work on it
throughout his lifetime. His
wife Mary published it three
months after his death in 1850.
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
is one of the most famous poets
in the history of English
Literature. He was born in
Cockermouth in Cumbria, part of
the region commonly known as
the Lake District, and his
birthplace had a huge influence
on his writing.
- Wordsworth was made Poet Laureate (the
Queen's poet) in 1843. However, in 1847
he was badly affected by another death,
that of his daughter Dora. He was said to
be so devastated that he couldn't bring
himself to write any more poetry.
- It is a long autobiographical
poem in 14 sections. The first
version was written in 1798
but he continued to work on it
throughout his lifetime. His
wife Mary published it three
months after his death in 1850.
- Structure
- There are no stanzas: the writing is
continuous though there is plenty
of punctuation to help us read it.
- This extract is a complete story in itself. It
starts with "One summer evening..." and
finishes with the effects on his mind of the
boat trip: "a trouble to my dreams".
- There are no stanzas: the writing is
continuous though there is plenty
of punctuation to help us read it.
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