Extract from The Prelude Flashcards

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One summer evening (led by her)

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  • Warmth and Comfort
  • Creates false sense of security
  • Connotes passivity
  • Naivety and innocence
  • Sinister undertones
  • Foreboding
  • Mother Nature = Her?
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Small circles glittering idly in the moon

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  • Calm
  • Tranquil imagery
  • Contrasts later in the poem
  • Wonder
  • Light imagery connotes innocence and peace
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Was nothing but the stars and the grey sky.

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  • Light Imagery
  • Innocence -> loss of this
  • Change to ‘towered up’
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huge peak, black and huge

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  • Repetition
  • Imagery
  • Emphasises fear
  • Intimidation
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Upreared its head

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  • Animalistic and predatory imagery
  • Personification
  • Confrontational and aggressive
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grim shape

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  • Imagery
  • Death
  • Dread
  • Foreboding
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struck and struck again

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  • Repetition
  • Desperation
  • Violence
  • Power
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Towered up between me and the stars

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  • Lack of light
  • Darkness
  • Unknown - Fear
  • Dominance and power
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No familiar shapes remained, no pleasant images

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  • Complete absence
  • Repetition - emphasis
  • Departing of enthusiasm
  • Life altering
  • Known and comfort gone
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that do not live like living men

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  • Simile
  • Unnatural/supernatural
  • Unknown
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a trouble to my dreams

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  • Tranquility + mental stability
  • Overwhelming and all-consuming
  • Juxtaposes ‘troubled pleasure’ -> physical exertion vs mental and psychological disturbance
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