The Prelude

Storm on the Island
1. The power of nature to terrify us
  1. "a huge peak, black and huge"
  2. "the grim shape towered up between me and the stars"
    1. Personification of the "huge peak". E.g "upreared its head", "growing still" and "strode after me"
      1. Makes nature seem threatening and cruel
        Forboding, frightening and sinister tone/atmosphere
  3. "in grave and serious mood"
  4. "there hung a darkness, call it solitude or blank desertion"
  5. "no familiar shapes remained, no pleasant images of trees"
  6. "huge and might forms, that do not live like living men, moved slowly through my mind by day, and were trouble to my dreams"
    1. Enjambement makes the poem seem breathless, and the events unstoppable
      1. Reflects the characters panic and fear and makes nature seem more terrifying
  7. "leaves and branches can raise a tragic chorus in a gale"
  8. "so that you can listen to the thing you fear forgetting that it pummels your house too"
  9. "spits like a tame cat turned savage"
    1. Simile shows how the storm is wild and uncontrolable
  10. "We are bombarded by the empty air. Strange, it is a huge nothing that we fear"
    1. Personification of nature makes it seem threatening and cruel
      1. Unerving tone/atmosphere
Kamikaze
1. The beauty of nature
  1. "small circles glittering idly in the moon"
    1. Beautify natural imagery used to convey the beauty of nature
  2. "heaving through the water like a swan"
    1. Similes used to convey the beauty of nature
  3. "little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translucent sea"
  4. "pearl grey pebbles"
  5. "cloud marked mackerel"
  6. "A little boat tied to a willow tree"
  7. "melted all into one track of sparkling light"
2. The influence of nature on people
  1. "It was an act of stealth and troubled pleasure"
    1. Oxymoron/juxposition
      1. Demonstrates the characters contrasting feelings about nature
  2. "nothing but the stars and the grey sky"
  3. "heaving through the water like a swan"
  4. "he must have looked far down at the little fishing boats strung out like bunting on a green-blue translulent sea"
    1. The poem juxtaposes beatiful imagery with dark and negitive imagery
      1. Reflects the inner conflict of the character as he tries to come to terms with his contrasting feelings
    2. "he must have wondered which had been the better way to die"
  5. "the dark prince, muscular and dangerous"
  6. "salt-sodden, awash with cloud-marked mackerel"
    1. Associates his family with nature, which is what brings him home
      1. Beauty of nature caused the pilot to act on impulses and emotions, and forget how society would veiw him when he returned

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