Detailed comparison plan between The prelude and Storm On The Island. Includes 2 comparison thesis statements, quotes and language analysis, structure and context for both poems.
Both poems the impact nature can have on people however in the Prelude this has a physiological impact and in SOTI this has physical impact that can harm
the people.
‘Upreared its head’ ‘strode after me’ ‘Spits like a tamed cat, turned savage’
-use of personi cation helps the reader to imagine that the speaker sees -simile creates the idea that the sea is spitting at the islanders like a wild,
the mountain as a terrifying, ominous creature that looms over the narrator savage animal
and pursues them
-although the sea was ‘tame’ to some extent, Heaney warns that nature
-Wordsworth details that the mountain ‘strode after me’, which could will always be untameable at heart like a cat that has abandoned human
demonstrate the speaker’s concern that he is being chased by the companionship- re ects the way Heaney feels about the natural world.
untameable mountain, and rapidly tries to row his boat away from it.
-unpredictability of the weather
-power of nature makes him physiologically believe that the mountain is
alive and chasing him
‘Exploding comfortably’
‘A trouble to my dreams’ -oxymoron presenting that causing damage is an e ortless task for the
storm
-physiologically haunted by nature in his head -sea is beating violently against the island and assaulting it
-juxtaposition of the two words surprises reader and therefore has a
-speaker is haunted by the memories of his experience and cannot forget greater e ect on them- like the surprise of sea bashing against cli s
the overwhelming power of nature
-Wordsworth is unable to shake the experience and even when Context
Wordsworth leaves the wilds, it stays with him and lingers.
-violent nature of storm and the destruction that is caused could
-It is clear that the speaker of the poem has gone on a journey that has resemble some of the violent political disturbances Ireland has
changed his view about nature forever. experienced
- rst 8 letters of title spell STORMONT which was the name given to
Northern Ireland’s parliament building
Context
-Wordsworth based this poem on his own experiences as a child.
-The boat journey in this poem symbolises Wordsworth’s relationship with
nature throughout his life; he was always discovering more about nature,
and constantly re ecting upon its power and beauty.
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