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Extract from The Prelude

A boy steals a boat and rows out. A mountain seems to rise and chase him. He is troubled for days.

Ullswater, early morning
Ullswater, early morning. John Glover, about 1824. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.

This poem in five words

Mountainterrifiesboyinboat

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The quotes

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a huge peak, black and huge

Wordsworth · Extract from The Prelude · power of nature · memory

A boy steals a boat. A mountain rises up behind him. He repeats huge because he has no other word for it.

And measured motion like a living thing, Strode after me

Wordsworth · Extract from The Prelude · power of nature

The mountain seems to walk after him. Nature has become alive and angry.

huge and mighty forms, that do not live Like living men

Wordsworth · Extract from The Prelude · power of nature · memory

For days after, he sees giant shapes in his mind. Nature has changed how he thinks.

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