Poetry-The Prelude(wordsworth)

Question 1

Describe the context

Answer 1

Wordsworth-born in Lake District

• both parents dead
• split up from his siblings and sent to live with other relative
• romantic poet

Question 2

Describe the overarching concepts?

Answer 2

• semantic field of beauty/innocence
• semantic field of human power
• semantic field of nature’s power

Question 3

Plan for semantic field of beauty/innocence?

Answer 3

“Small circles glittering”-sibilance

“Willow tree”-connotes happiness

“They melted all into one track of sparkling light”-metaphor, connotations of snow

Question 4

Semantic field of human power

Answer 4

“Proud of his skill”-arrogence(humanity’s pride in importance and ability

“Unswerving line”-visual imagrey-power

“Like a swan”-simile

Question 5

Sematic field of nature’s power

Answer 5

“Huge peak, black and huge”-anadiplosis

“Upreared his head”-personification

“Towered up between me and the stars”-hyperbole

Question 6

Describe the structure:

Answer 6

No rhyme but Iambic pentamiter
-written as an EPIC POEM

• tone of anxiety
• polysyndeton
• cyclical structure-
• romantic poet
• Parallelism