Discuss the ways in which the extract evokes the beauty and the power of the landscape of Lake District.
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... Nicki Hewitt-Stubbs 14th December 2001 Discuss the ways in which the extract evokes the beauty and the power of the landscape of Lake District. The extract that we are studding was written by Wordsworth in 1805, while the Battle of Trafalgar was going on, is The Stolen Boat, which was published after he died. It is an extract about a childhood experience, and particularly about a moment of epiphany, which he had. A sudden realisation of the magical scenery around him. The whole poem is about when he stole a shepherds boat and went out on to the lake with it, and then it became scared and returned. He begins the poem by talking about a godlike figure, and almost as if he is discussing a religious matter but at the same time that he is talking about nature, and how it came, about and praising it's existence. He then almost changes his style














