Compare And Contrast Muir And Wordsworth

A study compared the mental health of 100 people who moved from city landscapes to greener, more natural settings and those who relocated in the reverse direction. The data showed that those who relocated to settings with a higher exposure to nature were found to be happier during the three years that their mental health was recorded. Positivity around nature has been recorded for decades. Many people express their views through writing poetry, essays, and songs. John Muir and William Wordsworth were two authors who created different works of literature describing their positive relationship with nature.

William Wordsworth, the author of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, is a romantic poet. His view of nature came from a place of spirituality and connection with nature. Wordsworth put lots of emphasis on feelings and emotion. For example, he says when he is “In vacant or in pensive mood,” he thinks of nature and the flowers he saw, “And then my heart with pleasure …show more content…
In his essay, he describes how nature makes him feel, using words such as rejoicing, glorying, and revealing. His diction and tone show how free he feels in nature. After, “struggling through tangled drooping branches and over and under broad heaps of fallen trees,” Muir, “began to fear that I would not be able to reach dry ground before dark, and therefore would have to pass the night in the swamp...faint and hungry.” After Muir is feeling discouraged, he finds a glimmer of hope: “But when the sun was getting low and everything seemed most bewildering and discouraging, I found beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream, growing not in the ground but on a bed of yellow mosses in which its small white bulb had found a soft nest and from which its one leaf and one flower sprung.” Therefore, this passage shows that he feels grateful and love for nature, regardless of his