Compare And Contrast Wordsworth And Muir

Pay attention to how the flowers sway back and forth as the wind dances through open fields, take note of the animals running about in their home. The sounds the birds make may be music to one’s ears, and the smell of nature may allow the feeling of relaxation to take over one’s body. With the sounds, smells, and sights of nature all around, in the moment of letting nature settle into the mind, everything in the world may become at peace. When a relationship is opened up with nature, one could open up a better relationship with themselves, and expand their mind. Wordsworth and Muir both express their relationship with nature through visualization techniques, similes, and sophisticated words to create a deeper understanding of their love for nature and how it affects each of them, and it is a beautiful thing to allow the mind to become open to. …show more content…
Wordsworth also gifts the reader with vision through his eyes on the outlook he has on life. In the poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, Wordsworth describes how the flowers impact his mood, how it would be impossible to be down in their presence: "The waves beside them danced; but they / Outdid the sparkling waves in glee: / A poet could not but be gay, / In such a jocund company: / I gazed—and gazed—but little thought / What wealth the show to me had brought." Wordsworth also portrays how lonely he was before his discovery of the flowers with a direct relationship to a lone cloud: I wandered lonely as a cloud/ That floats on high o'er vales and hills”. The daffodils have a long term impact on the author, for he thinks of the feeling they brought him when he stumbled upon them. “They flash upon that inward eye / Which is the bliss of solitude; / And then my heart with pleasure