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This 6 page paper examines the way poet William Wordsworth uses natural imagery in his work, and argues that for him, it was an escape from the city into a nature he loved. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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for Wordsworth, nature was an escape. Discussion We begin with Wordsworths "The Prelude." The poem begins with an explanation by the poet of what he intended the work to accomplish.
Wordsworth writes that he "retired to his native mountains" in order to examine his own thoughts with regard to a new project, that of writing a "literary work that might
live." He felt that he needed to know if "Nature and Education had qualified him for such an employment" (Wordsworth). He addressed the work to "a dear friend" (Samuel Taylor
Coleridge), and described it as a "philosophical Poem, containing views of Man, Nature, and Society, and to be entitled the Recluse; as having for its principal subject the sensations and
opinions of a poet living in retirement" (Wordsworth). The poem was never completed as Wordsworth envisioned it, but its instructive to note that part of his purpose in writing it
is to examine Nature in its relation to Man and Society. Thus, nature is always an integral part of this poets works. In fact, as Driver writes, Wordsworth has
"pined" in the city, "but now nature begins to refresh him" (Driver 48). He feels he belongs in nature; "it has the power to release the burthen of my own
unnatural self and the wearying city days such as were not made for me" (Driver 48). The first lines of the poem take the reader immediately into nature: "OH there
is blessing in this gentle breeze, / A visitant that while it fans my cheek / Doth seem half-conscious of the joy it brings / From the green fields, and
from yon azure sky" (Wordsworth). Here, nature is gentle, joyous, and full of color (green fields and azure sky). Wordsworth never seems quite as happy as he does when hes
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