How does the poet vividly convey ideas concerning the influence that nature has upon man?…
The poem follows the narrator’s internal monologue as he revisits a place of nostalgia that ignited his love of nature. His fears that the picturesque scene of his childhood has been idealized are quieted as he sees the place for the first time in five years, falling in love with the environment all over again. He even credits nature as “The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,/The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul/Of all my moral being” (Wordsworth LL. 109-111). His ecological thinking recharges his soul and makes him feel joyful about life once again. Nature also connects the narrator to his sister, who he sees himself in because of their love of the countryside. He acknowledges his sister the first time in the poem as his “dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch/The language of my former heart, and read/My former pleasures in the shooting lights/Of thy wild eyes” (Wordsworth LL.…
The speakers speaks of nature throughout the entire poem. He uses metaphors and similes to compare Jane to living things as an attempt to give her new life through nature…
B. Thesis: Wordsworth and Muir convey their deep connection and passion for nature by utilizing similes and hyperboles to assert the reader how much nature has affected their life.…
In these lines Wordsworth writes about when he was younger and the memories he has which he can never replicate. He's haunted by the beauty of the the rocks, the mountains and the woods. He thinks about the charms of the scenery, how it looks at the time, how it looked in the past and it’s gifts. He gains pleasure from the scenery and reminisces about how nature inspired him even in his younger days, how it what he was looking at would possibly inspire him in later days.…
While both poets Muir and Wordsworth wrote about the happy feelings that they have towards nature the beautiful outdoors or what some people may say Mother Nature, some of which the feelings are the same and some that are different as they speak of the different plants.…
Overall, Muir and Wordsworth view nature very similarly, except both of the two men took different paths to view it. Muir took the path of an excursion which seemed like he was somewhere in a forest, while Wordsworth took the path of taking a walk and coming across a field of daffodils. In the end, both Muir and Wordsworth realize how lucky they are to be appreciative of nature and how nature really has an impact on both of them. Everybody in the world should appreciate nature, as some of us are living in it while the other half are bathing in wealth who think they do not need to appreciate the outside…
Samantha Wong Professor Jennifer Riske English 2323 15 June 2016 Writing Assignment One: “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” In William Wordsworth’s famous poem, “Tintern Abbey”, the poet deemed nature as valuable because he regarded nature as a moral guide, mentor throughout his life, and as well as restorative existence. When Wordsworth was child, he passionately reflected and cherished his time of isolation from the world as he pondered life in Wye River Valley as a youth. He inscribed: “But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din / Of towns and cities, I have owed to them”...... “His little, nameless, unremembered, acts / Of kindness and of love” (lines 26-26; 34-35). This transcript is an example that nature encouraged…
It is, also, the piece I connected with the most. In this piece, Coleridge describe the pure and internal peaceful reflection that occurs late at night. The speaker is watching his/her “infant slumber peacefully”. The speaker observes the world outside the window in relation to the child and proceeds to address the baby, “Dear Babe”, with the message that nature is a valuable teacher. This moment relates to the way William Wordsworth addresses and blesses his sister, Dorothy Wordsworth, in Tin Turn…
This poem explores the lack of appreciation humanity has for the natural world, It uses simile to create vivid imagery. An example of a quote would be ”And are gathered up like now sleeping flowers” is a simile which creates visual imagery by visualising people as sleeping flowers. Wordsworth uses this simile to show that humans do not appreciate nature as much as they used to, and that humans are blinded by their man-made world. However, the poet expresses hope as the flowers are only sleeping, not dead, and once they wake up, there might be some light again where they see the beauty of nature. Thus, this shows that people are not appreciating nature as much as they should be, and this characterises Wordsworth as a Romantic.…
Coleridge describes to his son how his love of nature dates back to his boyhood. During school, Coleridge would gaze out the schoolhouse windows and admire the frost falling outside and would daydream about leaving the city and returning to his rural birthplace. Coleridge tells his son that he is delighted that his son will have more opportunities to observe the beauty of nature and will not be “reared/ In the great city, pent ‘mid cloisters dim” as Coleridge himself was. Coleridge then wishes that “all seasons shall be sweet” to his son and that his son will learn to appreciate all aspects of nature.…
Innocence is a characteristic of life that is slowly taken away by experience, just like how in Gerard Manley Hopkins poem, Spring and Fall, the cool winds of fall strip the trees of their leaves, leaving them bare for everyone to see. The entirety of the poem is all about innocence and experience and how they interact with each other. The first few lines of the poem say,…
The poem is set in the countryside during the spring season and it is in a natural setting. We get the feeling that there are farms and grassland around us as we walk through 'weeds in wheels' and we also understand it may be because of the fact that there are lambs frolicking on the hillside. Perhaps there may even be forestry around as the phrase 'echoing timber' suggests trees and branches. The weather is typical sunny, spring weather as the poem suggests the sky to be of a pale blue colour, which 'descends' down perhaps connecting heaven and earth, highlighting the theme of religion. In the last six lines, all of the description of nature disappears and moves into the image of Adam and Eve. Perhaps Hopkins is trying to create the image of the Garden Of Eden.…
The poet personifies nature with a commonly used term as emother naturef and I think the hidden meaning behind this is that the poem he has written carries the same message that has been preached for years, yet no one bothers to follow or listen to it.…
People can often get lost in their hectic lives and forget how just being in the presence of nature can affect them greatly. The romantic poems are called The Tide Rises The Tide Falls, The First Snowfall, and The Chambered Nautilus. The Tide Rises The Tide Falls, Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, is about how nature will always go on no matter what happens to people. The First Snowfall is written by James Russell Lowell. It is about a father who is dealing with the passing of his daughter. The Chambered Nautilus, written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, talks about how a person was inspired by a simple shell. The value of nature is how it can help people during sad events, heal them after unhappy incidents , and inspire them.…