The Prelude Poem Analysis

How do poets present the theme of power in 'The prelude' and one other poem?
Both the Prelude and Storm on the island share links to the overwhelming power of nature and how man feels lesser when compared. In the Prelude, we see somone changing there life / lifestyle because of an immediate power (The mountain). Where as in Storm on the island, we see people changing there lives because of a constant power (the storm). The power in Storm on the Island is very real whereas in the Prelude it is not real, it is simply perspective.
The prelude focuses heavily on the portrayal of how the narrator is changed by his encounter with nature. Whereas In contrast we see that the people in Storm on the Island regularly change to counteract the storm, building …show more content…
In the Prelude we see that the narrator feels at one with nature, this is suggested in the quote 'A little boat tied to a willow tree.. its usual home' the boat is man made, despite this its said that its usual home is within a natural cove, close to nature, he is in awe of nature. Storm on the Island shares a similar structure, the line ' sink walls in rock and roof them with good slate' present the inhabitants of the island as also close to nature, using it to build there homes and to defend themselves. The verb 'sink' suggests that their homes are deep within the ground forming a bond between them and nature further emphasising this connection. However, by the middle of each poem this bond appears to break, both poets presenting nature in a vicious and unrelenting way.The Prelude presents this in the line ' A huge peak, black and huge... growing still in the stature the grim shape towered up between me and the stars' The narrator encounters an immensly large, overwhelming mountain that shakes him to the core, we can infer that he is intensly shocked by the might of nature shown in the poets repition of 'huge'. In additon, Wordsworths personification of the