Muir And Wordsworth

Naturalism has a superpower that can be used to find a connection with all things in humans and nature. This power can be in all of us, because it's the power of observation and we can interact with nature by exploring its natural surroundings. Romanticism has no superpowers but does have amazing effects from its beauty, depending on your view of nature, the effects can be life changing; or a place of peace, "bliss of solitude", and a relaxing state of being. In these two writings, Muir faces dangers in his path to get to the flower, and Wordsworth stumbles upon these flowers while walking around in nature. They also use techniques, like diction, tone, and syntax in their writing to help effectively make the reader read all the way through …show more content…
Wordsworth writes, “Which is bliss of solitude; and my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils,” (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth). Wordsworth creates a tone of sadness but shifts it to a more joyful atmosphere, but as he does he uses author’s diction to draw the reader in, because of this he starts the stanza off with loneliness to a blissful ending from the memory of the flower encounter. Unlike Muir, Wordsworth had rhythm and syntax throughout his poem; he says, “They stretched in never-ending line; Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in a sprightly dance,” (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth). Muir does use syntax at the end of his essay, but Wordsworth uses syntax throughout his entire poem. For the lines with syntax, he mixes up the structure of the words and messes with the punctuation and the meaning of words. The rhythm would be slow as in “never- ending” to create a more intensive tension, but with both devices it helps make a mood that is alerting to pleasant at the end of the