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This lesson pairs two poems that explore power in deeply personal ways. Wordsworth's extract from The Prelude dramatises the overwhelming power of nature over the human mind, while Browning's My Last Duchess reveals the chilling power of a man who treats people as possessions. Together, they show how power operates at the individual level — one through awe, the other through control.
| Fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Poet | William Wordsworth (1770–1850) |
| Movement | Romantic poet — co-founded Romanticism with Coleridge |
| Work | The Prelude is a long autobiographical poem (14 books) |
| Extract | "Stealing the Boat" — a childhood memory from Book I |
| Published | 1850 (posthumously), though written from 1798 onwards |
| Form | Blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter) |
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