Extract From 'The Prelude'

Question 1

semantic field

Answer 1

‘Lustily’ - links to love, desire and pleasure

Suggests a lack/ emptiness in the narrator’s life

Question 2

Semantic field

Answer 2

‘Pleasure’- connects emotions of joy
Oxymoron: ‘troubled pleasure’
Suggests he was in a confused/upset state

Question 3

Semantic field

Answer 3

‘Idly’- calm and passive

Links to love and nature

Question 4

Personification

Answer 4

‘Strode after me’
Intentional, purpose, confident, powerful, attacking, confronting,
Reflects conflict between nature and man

Question 5

Personification

Answer 5

‘Upreared its head’
Animalistic
Hunted 
Vulnerability 
Fantasy element 
Shows fear

Question 6

Repetition

Answer 6

‘No’

Suggests there is something missing in the narrator’s life as if there is a void or nothing left

Question 7

Explanations

Answer 7

The mountain could be a metaphor for the block of light that is cutting away the narrator’s from hope and happiness. It is also blocking the stars that might represent the narrator’s losses of family in life.