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'Towered Between Me and the Stars'

Ambition and Hubris in The Prelude

NOW: You have been given several natural objects - can you guess the lifespan of each?

THEN: How does the difference in lifespans affect the way we view nature?

TAKE IT FURTHER: How might this link to the core ideas of the Romantics, as we learned about in Ozymandias?

  • Mayfly
  • Dog
  • Cat
  • Chimp
  • Palm Tree
  • Human
  • Blue Whale
  • Tortoise
  • Alaska Red Ceder
  • Britstlecone Pine
  • Mountain
  • Earth
  • Universe
  • Turritopsis dohrnii

AVERAGE LIFESPAN OF A...

Average Lifespan of a...

  • Mayfly - 24 hours
  • Dog - 13 years
  • Cat - 17 years
  • Chimp - 39 years
  • Palm Tree - 50 years
  • Human - 79 years
  • Blue Whale - 90 years
  • Tortoise - 120 years
  • Alaska Red Ceder - 3,500 years
  • Britstlecone Pine - 4,900 years
  • Mountain - 88,500,000 years
  • Earth (habitable) - 7,790,000,000
  • Sun - 10,000,000,000
  • Universe - 14,000,000,000
  • Turritopsis dohrnii - ∞

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Key Quotations

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These can be singular words or phrases, but you must have something to say about the language used

Big Ideas and Contextual Factors

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4

Make sure to lead with the idea and use the contextual factor to explain why the author thought this

Key Moments/Foci

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Annotation

1. How would you describe the persona's attitude and personality throughout the poem?

2. What are they doing at the beginning? Is there a reason given (are they rowing for any particular reason?)

3. What comparison(s) do they make to the poem to themselves?

4. The mountain represents more than a mountain - what is this?

5. Ozymandias explored ideas of power, hubris and futility - to what extent does this poem explore the same idea?

These can be the beginning, middle and end, and what is focused on, or three ideas that repeatedly appear

Points on Form

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4

Think about rhyme, metre and stanza structure. You might also want to think if the poem is a specific type of poem

Poem to Compare With

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If this poem comes up in exam, say what poem you would compare it with - think about the big ideas within

The Prelude

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OVERVIEW

NOW: Read The Prelude and discuss the following with the person next to you:

1 – unloosed

2 – stealth

3 – idly

4 – track

5 – summit

6 – craggy

7 – utmost

8 – lustily

9 – upreared

10 – stature

11 – grim

12 – covert

13 – grave

14 – desertion

  • How would you describe the persona's attitude and personality throughout the poem?
  • What are they doing at the beginning? Is there a reason given (are they rowing for any particular reason?)
  • What comparison(s) do they make to the poem to themselves?
  • The mountain represents more than a mountain - what is this?
  • How does this poem explore ideas in our CRE?
  • Ozymandias and London focus on wider, societal aspects of the 1800s - is the same true of this poem?

Personal or Business?

Ideas and Context

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Hubris

Like many Romantics, Wordsworth despised the Victorian disregard for nature and their desire to conquer it. Here this manifests as a fundamental part of human nature.

Identity

We can choose one of two identities: solipsism (the idea we are the only one to exist in the world) or accept we are a tiny aspect of something massive. The latter is necessary, but not pleasant.

Fear

This poem explores the emotions that arise as a result of nature - this belief is known as The Sublime - fear and awe as a response to nature

Form and Structure

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Structure

  • The poem begins by focusing on what the narrator can do - his accomplishments - with a hint of shame.
  • The mountain is then introduced as a powerful force
  • The narrator reverses his actions but now realises he is temporary and fleeting - he cannot escape what he has learned

Form

The poem is written in blank verse, meaning that there is no rhyme scheme but constant iambic pentameter. This symbolises how, even though he thinks he is free throughout the poem, the speaker is still at the mercy of nature, his time remainng and his heartbeat - daDUM is the sound of nature after all.

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  • 'The Prelude' - a prelude is an introduction to a bigger thing, symbolising the recognition achieved in this poem leading to a wider realisation
  • 'Troubled pleasure' - this oxymoron shows the persona's repressed knowledge that what he is doing - theft and arroagnce - is wrong but is a thought he ignores
  • 'Small circles glittering idly...until they merged into one circle' - a circle is a complete shape, symbolising how the narrator at this point consider himself a complete and fulfilled - however, it is all ripples destiny to merge together, showing how he ultimately cannot exist forever

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  • 'The horizon's utmost boundary' - symbolically the persona is reaching for the best point imagainable, but something impossible to attain

  • 'Nothing but the stars and the grey sky' - symbolises how the narrator feels his dreams and ambitions are eaily attainable, until...

  • 'Towered up between me and the stars' - the permenance of the moutain shatters his security and dreams

COMPARE

Compare how power is presented in The Prelude and one other poem

IDEA

Ozymandias

The Prelude

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CONCLUSION

& QUESTIONS

Lesson Review: The Prelude

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