Wordsworth

Wordsworth’s poem in some ways reminds me of the poem that we discussed in depth on Friday. On Friday we talked about how there was so much industrialization going on in London, and how it was rapidly changing the look of the city. Here Wordsworth talks about his true appreciation for nature, however, it has been awhile since he’d last truly got to experience it, five years to be exact. He goes on to talk about his different memories that he has with nature and all the different things that he really is grateful for in nature. However, Wordsworth has of course realized that there is now less of this nature to be appreciated. There are now so many different towns that are being established and different factories and stores that are being built that it is replacing the nature that Wordsworth feels so dearly about. Wordsworth would prefer that we go back to a more natural state, one where there is much less industrialization. Wordsworth sees all this industrialization as a having a negative effect on the people of England. He believes that nature has an opposite effect though. Wordsworth believes that all of the nature that he describes in the beginning of the poem helps people to be better moral selves, and it is for this reason that we should all have the same appreciation for nature that Wordsworth has for it.