John Muir's Relationship With Nature

When it comes to the correlation between the beauty of nature and the consciousness of man, John Muir states, “In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” It’s interesting to notice that a simple walk can encourage a man to be inspired by the beauty that nature offers. From seeing nature through the point of an essay and seeing nature through the point of a poem, John Muir, and William Wordsworth created two different pieces that express their connection between man and nature. With the use of tone, imagery and diction, John Muir's essay, Calypso Borealis and William Wordsworth's poem, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, were both able to express the authors' relationships with nature.
In order to convey their adventure through nature, both authors used a similar alternating pattern of tones; sometimes gloomy and sometimes pleasing to convey their adventure through nature. Wordsworth begins his poem in a depressing tone by stating “I wandered lonely as a cloud…” to describe how lonely he …show more content…
As Wordsworth states in his poem “…all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils...And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.” Wordsworth used figurative language to create a similarity between the host of daffodils and his sense of happiness. Muir, on the other hand, uses connotations to get his audience responding in an expressive manner. From using words such as “…glorious” and “…fresh” to determine his pleasurable experience with nature, using words such as “…crooked” and “…tangled” to determine the discomfort and danger that he went through to seek the flower, and using words such as “…purity” and “…spiritualty” to show his audience the emotional change that he established when he discovered the flower, he was able to keep the audience engaged from the beginning of his essay to the end of his