When researching William Wordsworth, it’s easy to see the influence he had on what would become the Romantic Period. He wrote during the 18th century and help create the Romantic period. Wordsworth wrote both prose and poetry, and poetry was his way of expressing himself (as the Romantic Period was known for). Wordsworth is mostly remembered for being a poet and one of his main inspirations was nature. His partnership with Samuel Taylor Coleridge produces Lyrical Ballads that were full of poems that are still read and interpreted today, along with a preface in a second edition. Lyrical Ballads introduced Romanticism to English poetry. I learned that Wordsworth “valued” epic poetry above lyric and I can see that shining through in his poems
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I felt as if stanzas 2 through 5 used language chalk full of rural and natural things. I thought the poem was about how Nature can “link” the soul and the mind. I felt that the speaker, who is now surrounded by nature, is about to be one with himself. Nature is bounteous and beautiful and is the opposite of urban. Being in the vast nature, I think the speaker was able to think and find pleasure in being one with nature. The speaker comments on not being able to understand the thought process of the birds, but it seemed as if they were having a “thrill of pleasure” by being in nature. Seeing the pictures of Grasmere and the Lake District, I can see how this sort of nature would have influenced Wordsworth. Just by reading this poem and researching the fact that Wordsworth valued the idea of nature, it brought more life to this poem. I read that Wordsworth thought of nature as a something that could help heal and as its own living personality. I think the fact that he believed it to help heal comes into play in “Lines Written in Early Spring” because of the way the speaker seems to be going to nature to be one with himself and to see how much more pleasure seems to come from nature as opposed to “what man has made of
I felt as if stanzas 2 through 5 used language chalk full of rural and natural things. I thought the poem was about how Nature can “link” the soul and the mind. I felt that the speaker, who is now surrounded by nature, is about to be one with himself. Nature is bounteous and beautiful and is the opposite of urban. Being in the vast nature, I think the speaker was able to think and find pleasure in being one with nature. The speaker comments on not being able to understand the thought process of the birds, but it seemed as if they were having a “thrill of pleasure” by being in nature. Seeing the pictures of Grasmere and the Lake District, I can see how this sort of nature would have influenced Wordsworth. Just by reading this poem and researching the fact that Wordsworth valued the idea of nature, it brought more life to this poem. I read that Wordsworth thought of nature as a something that could help heal and as its own living personality. I think the fact that he believed it to help heal comes into play in “Lines Written in Early Spring” because of the way the speaker seems to be going to nature to be one with himself and to see how much more pleasure seems to come from nature as opposed to “what man has made of