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Posted by Hayley Pert on April 07, 19101 at 04:58:19:
In Reply to: Use of nature. posted by Borys on February 08, 19101 at 17:02:01:
Take into account the social, cultural and historical background. It was written during the French Revolution in which wordsworth was involved and was shocked by it.
The first stanza sees the narrator emphasising the constancy and familiarity of the scene,'once again I see these hedge-rows....'
The meter is kept constant from the first to second stanza helping the poem to flow which emphasises the constancy of nature.
In the third stanza Wordsworth draws or attention to the physical side of nature bought out by our childlike qualities.This sense of nature being alive is one echoed throught the poem,'the tall rock,the mountain....'He tells us of these fantastic images hes seen of mountains being alive and then as if he suddenly matures and doesn't believe them,'Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur:other gifts have followed, for such loss, I would believe, abundant recompence.'however all is not lost he goes on to suggest that man and nature are intrinsically linked and that nature holds a healing quality,'But hearing often times the still sad music of humanity.'
By the end of the poem it becomes clear he holds no place in his heart for the superficial society to which he belongs but feels nature holds a mystical power which is healing. He does draw our attention to the theme of age and of how children are closer to nature than adults who have merely matured to appreciate it more.Hence the comparison of Worsworth to his sister who is younger than him.