The Prelude
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- Created on: 04-05-19 14:30
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- The Prelude
- Context
- William Wordsworth born in Lake District (1770-1850)
- Surrounded by death
- Brother died in a shipwreck
- Loses 2 children in the same year
- Orphan by 13
- Attended St. Johns College at Cambridge University
- Poem is dedicated to friend and fellow poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Fascinated by nature + was his 'moral influence'
- Poem was considered his greatest work
- Liked to write lyrical ballads
- Themes
- Power of Nature
- Tissue
- Exposure
- Memory
- Pride
- Fear
- Individual Experience
- London
- Power of Nature
- Linked Poems
- The Emigrée (pride + individual experience)
- Remains (memory + individual experience)
- Poppies (memory, fear, individual experience)
- Ozymandias (power of nature + memory)
- My Last Duchess (memory, pride)
- Kamikaze (power of nature, memory, individual experience)
- War Photographer(memory, individual experience)
- Storm On The Island (power of nature, fear)
- Bayonet Charge (fear, individual experience)
- Techniques
- 1st person
- Oxymoron "troubled pleasure"
- Enjambment
- Semantic field of death
- black and huge, stars, hung a darkness,
- Extended metaphor for death (has a lasting impact)
- Line 21 Volta (when his childhood was 'taken' from him)
- Plosives "The horizon's bound, a huge peak, black and huge"
- Personifies nature
- Quotes
- "Without the voice of mountain-echoes"
- "Glittering idly in the moonlight"
- "Upreared its head"
- "Growing still in stature the grim shape towered up"
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- Context
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