FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
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“The horizon’s bound, a huge peak, black and huge”
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“With trembling oars I turned”
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“Far above was nothing but the stars and the grey sky”
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“And growing still in stature the grim shape”
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Detailed explanation-1: -This is enhanced by harsh adjectives like “craggy", “huge” and “black” to begin the characterisation of the previously hidden “peak” 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.
Detailed explanation-2: -The tone of the poem once more changes, this time from terror to introspection, as he describes his return home and the days after his experience. The ‘dim and determined sense / Of unknown modes of being’ is reflective but again dreamlike – as though the poet cannot quite define the nature of what he has experienced.
Detailed explanation-3: -In both poems nature is portrayed as being more powerful than men. In ‘The Prelude’, the persona fears nature, namely the mountain, which the speaker describes as “a huge peak, black and huge".
Detailed explanation-4: -Preview-The Prelude by William Wordsworth A feeling that I was not for that hour, Nor for that place.” Be nothing better than a wandering cloud, I cannot miss my way.”