FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
|
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
|
|
|
“The grim shape towered up between me and the stars”
|
|
|
“As if with voluntary power instinct, upreared its head”
|
|
|
“Measured motion like a living thing”
|
|
|
“But huge and mighty forms, that do not live”
|
Detailed explanation-1: -to raise up; lift: The horse upreared its head and whinnied.
Detailed explanation-2: -As if with voluntary power instinct, / Upreared its head. Not only is the mountain powerful, but it has agency (life and free will) according to Wordsworth’s personification. The “peak"’s power is “voluntary” and it has “Upreared its head” to come and attack the speaker.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth uses the motif of the mountainto portray the underestimation of nature’s power. The speaker can be seen as symbolic of humanity as a whole. The speaker believed “the summit of a craggy peak” to be the extent of his world, and the extent of nature’s power over his world.
Detailed explanation-4: -In ‘Extract from, The Prelude’, there is a volta, signifying that the speaker’s view of nature changes from admiration to fear. At the start of the poem, nature is personified as ‘she led’ him to the boat. Personifying nature in this way makes nature sound enticing and almost seductive.