Comparing Wordsworth And Chopin's Life

These differences in tone are caused by several factors that can be easily rationalized once one realizes that Chopin lived to be 39, a full 14 years older than Keats was at his death, and had suffered from poor health for the majority of his life. Chopin and Keats may have most likely died of the same thing, but Chopin was older and died over thirty years after Keats, thus the difference in tone, Keats having more of a desperate undertone than Chopin, can easily be theorized to be because of these differences. Keats simply had less time and had the desperation of youth when he fell ill while Chopin most likely contracted it at an older age and it is still debated whether tuberculosis was his cause of death or if it was a previously undiagnosed …show more content…
Similar to Keats, Wordsworth was also desperate to continue his passions, but, unlike Keats desire to write, Wordsworth instead wanted to keep his connection to nature as long as possible as he felt as though his life would be empty without it. His theme of time through the theme of youth can be explained as the young are the wise and through time they lose both the wisdom and the connection to nature. As time passes and Wordsworth grows older, and begins to feel he is starting to lose this relationship to nature and starts to lose his wonder of nature, which makes him unhappy,. He spent so long in amazement of nature and all it can teach him, that when he starts to lose this youthful view of things, he feels as though this large chunk of his life is starting to fade away. Despite this, Wordsworth does not begrudge the passing of time, as seen in his poem “Tintern Abbey” where he thinks about how five years have passed since he last saw the location and how everything is not the same as he remembers it, that he himself is different. Yet, he still thinks of how fondly he remembers the location and how he will use the memories of the current visit in the future. He also has realized that the last time he was