Out on the sea, Captain Wilde and his crew were getting ready to brave through a severe storm. The waves bullied the ship making it toss and turn, and the rain pounded down on the crew. The wind whistled loudly as it moved across the sea and the ship. The only thing that the men could do was to hold on to the sides of the ship. The storm seemed to last for hours until at last, bits of sunshine broke through the dark gray clouds. The phrase "waves bullied the ship making it toss and turn" means that .

a. the waves feel impatient in the seab. the waves are clearing out old shipsc. the waves are deprived of any restd. the waves hit the ship with great force

the antonym of esurient is abstemious.

pulling in the reader is important

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human