Questions to guide you while annotating: What is the weather like? What tone is implied through the weather? How is a sense of space created in L2 of the poem? How do we know he doesn’t want to go home? What does this suggest about his state of mind? What is “rapture”? What does it suggest about his mind set at this point in the poem? How is a sense of movement created in the poem? Where is there a sense of danger/darkness? How is sound used in throughout the poem? (choose a range of examples to explore and explain the effect of) What are the ‘precipices’? Why did they “rang aloud”? What time of year does it appear to be? How is nature presented in the poem? Where are verbs used to create a sense of urgency? How are the hills made to seem strange or unusual and what effect does this have? What tone or mood are you left with at the end of the poem? Select 5 words or phrases to explore the connotations. Are there any words or phrases that seem unfamiliar – can you use the context of the poem to work out what they mean?

Context considerations: William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) born in the Lake District which hugely influences his writing. He explores nature and the great outdoors The Lake District is a place of stunning natural beauty, filled with lakes, forests and a hilly landscape He was an influential Romantic poet His poems along with his sister Dorothy and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's collection The Lyrical Ballads marked the start of the Romantic Movement Romantics changed the way people thought about art and writing Romantic Poets thought of nature as awe-inspiring and worshipped the beauty of nature due to the size and power nature held This poem is semi – autobiographical This part of the poem is from Book 1 of this epic poem – relaying his experiences as a boy between the ages of 5 to 10 years old His mother died when he was aged 8 years old His father died when he was 13 The poem was published after he died (posthumously)

Live Model: Feedback to consider regarding context: Where the context is embedded? How is it embedded? Why is it embedded like this? What does it show you about using context? What does it teach you to avoid when linking to context? How can you use this model for your own context embedding?

Over to you – Write about how nature is presented in the poem Remember to: Link to the question Terminology Quotes Meaning – implicit & explicit Zoom in Include context