(Extract From) The Prelude

Question 1

What is the message of this poem?

Answer 1

The power of nature over humans, in addition to the power of imagination.

Question 2

What poems can you compare it with?

Answer 2

Ozymandias (Nature’s Power Over Humans)
Storm On The Island (Nature’s Power)

Question 3

Towered up….

Answer 3

Between me and the stars.

Question 4

A huge peak….

Answer 4

Black and huge… upreared its head.

Question 5

Troubled….

Answer 5

Pleasure.

Question 6

There hung a darkness….

Answer 6

Call it solitude.

Question 7

Small circles…

Answer 7

Glittering idly in the moon.