![]() ![]() Nature is presented as powerful and threatening as "Her melancholy army attacked once more". ![]() Similarly in 'Exposure', nature is shown to have more power over the soldiers even than their enemy, in that nature killed more people. William Wordsworth was famously quoted for saying "poetry.takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility" this is clear in 'The Prelude' as the intense emotions experienced by the speaker in awe of the sublime in nature is clearly expressed later in the poem. Furthermore, the speaker's fear of the mountain is prolonged throughout the poem, later saying 'there hung a darkness' which is representative of his fear of the power of the nature. This clearly demonstrates the power of nature in both its beauty and its ability to inspire fear in people. Moreover, the adjective 'black' contrasts with the positive lexical field used earlier in the poem when describing nature, for example the speaker's description of the moon 'glittering idly'. The repetition of the adjective 'huge' reflects the persona's temporary loss for words due to his immense fear of the mountain. In 'The Prelude', the persona fears nature, namely the mountain, which the speaker describes as "a huge peak, black and huge". In both poems nature is portrayed as being more powerful than men. ![]()
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