EXTRACT FROM THE PRELUDE context :
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Wordsworth info :
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Born 1770 ,
died 1850
Orphan by his early teens
One summer evening (led by her) I found
a A little boat tied to a willow tree embraced nature
Poet Laureate
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3 Within a rocky cove, its usual home.
Romantic poet
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&
Straight I unloosed her chain, and stepping in Extract from the Prelude info :
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Pushed from the shore. It was an act of stealth Romanticism genre
6 And troubled pleasure, nor without the voice
↳ a dislike of urban life and embrace
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Of mountain-echoes did my boat move on; of the natural world
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Leaving behind her still, on either side, ↳ a love of the supernatural
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Small circles glittering idly in the moon, - use of
Ordinary everyday language ,
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Until they melted all into one track
Of sparkling light. But now, like one who rows, Form
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in
Epic Poetry
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Proud of his skill, to reach a chosen point ↳ long marrative poem which tells of
With an unswerving line, I fixed my view heroic actions usually legendary or
Upon the summit of a craggy ridge,
,
historical and focuses on one heroic
,
15 The horizon's utmost boundary; far above
character
16 Was nothing but the stars and the grey sky. *
the understanding of the power of
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She was an elfin pinnace; lustily nature cam be seen as such an important
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I dipped my oars into the silent lake, moment in the Doet's life that he felt it
19 And, as I rose upon the stroke, my boat was deserving of its inclusion in this epic
*
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Went heaving through the water like a swan; poem
2) When, from behind that craggy steep till then Written in blank verse
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The horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge,
structure :
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As if with voluntary power instinct, EFFECT ON THE READER :
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Upreared its head. I struck and struck again, the reader is overwhelmed by
25 And growing still in stature the grim shape
the immensity / magnitude of the
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Towered up between me and the stars, and still, poem
27 For so it seemed, with purpose of its own how Wordsworth was
↳ reflects
28 And measured motion like a living thing, overwhelmed by the experience
29 Strode after me. With trembling oars I turned, he had with nature
30 And through the silent water stole my way ↳ helps the reader empathise
31 Back to the covert of the willow tree; With the emotions of the poet
. ENJAMBMENT
2
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There in her mooring-place I left my bark, -
the overpowering urge
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And through the meadows homeward went, in grave suggests to communicate and the inability
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And serious mood; but after I had seen to stop and order his thoughts
35 That spectacle, for many days, my brain
into an ordered
, coherent structure
36 Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
↳ adds to the sense of the
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Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts overwhelming effect of nature
38 There hung a darkness, call it solitude . sentence structure
3 a huge peak, :
39 Or blank desertion. No familiar shapes 'upreared its head'
↳ deliberate delay in the reveal of
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Remained, no pleasant images of trees,
4) the subject and very from when
Of sea or sky, no colours of green fields;
↳ the extra information used heightens
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But huge and mighty forms, that do not live
43 Like living men, moved slowly through the mind suspense
↳ the sentence structure here increases
44 By day, and were a trouble to my dreams.
the tension the reader to allowing
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