In this 6 1/2 page essay the author broaches the theme of nature as utilized by Wordsworth. Numerous quotes and examples are provided and interpreted with Tintern Alley in particular focuses upon. 8 sources are cited.
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and day, he was tremendously influenced by the changes that were occurring during this time. Because of the increased industrialization of his era, he and several others of his time
argued that mankind needed to return to the simpler way of life where mankind was in touch with nature and his roots. As a result, then, the theme of
nature is quite prevalent in the works of William Wordsworth. Considered both a Rustic and a Romantic poet, Wordsworth incorporated the themes of imagination and redemption into his poetry as
well. Romanticism is the term that is generally ascribed to the changing of those prevailing classical attitudes in all the areas,
including literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism and historiography in Western civilization(Pater, 37). If Classical styles were seen as being typically calm, harmonious, balanced, structured, and rational, then the Romantic period
was anything but those things. Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental (Pater, 37). It is
to this transcendental end that it can be said that Wordsworth leaned. Many have compared the late Robert Frost to Wordsworth in
that his poetry on the surface seemed to be very much about nature. However, when one looks beyond the imagery of the poem, one begins to see the underlying correlations
and transcendental messages which relate to man and the inner workings of the soul. In the poem, Inscriptions, to which the
first lines are: HOPES what are they?--Beads of morning Strung on slender blades of grass;