Extract from, the prelude

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Mind Map on Extract from, the prelude, created by Isabella Grogan on 18/02/2017.
Isabella Grogan
Mind Map by Isabella Grogan, updated more than 1 year ago
Isabella Grogan
Created by Isabella Grogan about 7 years ago
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Extract from, the prelude
  1. Language Techniques
    1. Language Techniques
      1. "one summer" starts with summer so the reader expects a nice happy poem so it is more of a shock when it turns dark and mysterious
      2. Personification
        1. he refers to the boat as "her"
        2. Imagery
          1. "There hung a darkness"the word "hung" is very sinister and also : darkness is scary.
            1. "sparkling light" the word "sparkling" connotes precious items like diamonds.
          2. Themes
            1. The night: the poem seems to suggest that you can sometimes experience feelings and events more clearly at night, perhaps due to loneliness.
              1. Nature: humanity is part of nature and sometimes we can be made to feel very small and insignificant by the natural world
                1. Loneliness: Wordsworth is often on his own throughout The Prelude and this is important to him. He can think more clearly and is more affected by events and places as a result.
                2. Structure
                  1. This extract is a complete story in itself. It starts with "One summer evening..." and finishes with the effects on his mind of the boat trip: "a trouble to my dreams".
                    1. 44 lines and is blank verse
                      1. There are no stanzas
                      2. sound
                        1. The poet uses "and"s throughout to give the verse a breathless quality.
                          1. The Prelude is conversational
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