Prelude Flashcards

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Point

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The conflict between man and nature is caused by man’s attempt to manipulate nature, nature still contains a power and majestic beyond mankind’s ability to command

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Second point

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The poem is quite hard to relate to conflict and power however there is a sense of conflict between man and nature where nature is eventually shown to be more powerful in the end

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Evidence for the second point

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”there hung darkness” = The darkness hanging over him represents his change to a darker mood at the end of the journey. The words will carry in a dark and sinister tone, more morbid and melancholy. He is reflecting on the conflict in his mind of the juxtaposed the peaceful side of nature and the harsh extremes it also contrasts
“Big and mighty forms”

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