Extract from The Prelude - William Wordsworth

Question 1

Structure

Answer 1

• One stanza - symbolic of the one significant journey
• Caesura and enjambment - movement of memory
  - Changes: positive to negative

Question 2

Meaning

Answer 2

• Discovery of 1st experiences
  - Sex?
  - Own insignificance and mortality
• Realising the power of nature

Question 3

Imagery

Answer 3

“a huge peak, black and huge” - Repetition

Question 4

Language

Answer 4

• “grim shape”
• “Like a living thing, strode after me” - Personification

Question 5

Effect

Answer 5

• Realisation of own insignificance in the world
• How powerful nature is compared to the individual