Setting: Summer time
About: Nature...
- refuge
- always brought joy--it has changed
- extremely important
- religion / spirituality connecting with nature
Returning to a well-loved spot from "thoughtless" youth
Instead of experiencing the world through the physical body - touch, smell, etc - in nature, we experience it through the soul (spiritually).
Wordsworth realizes what nature has done for him in the past and anticipates what it will do for him in the future.
Nature guides him.
Everything pure about him is from nature.
He brings his sister along to share the experience with him but with a childlike view - enjoying together.
He strongly believes in the power of nature in times of trouble or chaos. He wants her to realize that also.
Themes of Romantic writing:
- nature: powerful, a guide, a moral force, a protector
- childhood
- imagination: memory
- spiritual
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