William Wordsworth
In his poem, "Lines Written in the Early Spring," gives us insight into his views of the destruction of nature. Using personification, he makes nature seem to be full of life and happy to be living. Yet, man still is destroying what he sees as "Nature�s holy plan" (8).
The entire poem is about the interaction between nature and man. Wordsworth is clearly not happy about the things that man has done to the world. He describes Nature in detail in the second and third stanzas when he personifies the periwinkle and the flowers. He is thinking about the bad things that man has done to nature and he wants the reader to sit back and think about the fact that there used to ...
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the trailing periwinkle, really do exist and if they really are as alive as he says.
Wordsworth�s line "What man has made of man" (7) refers to what human men are doing to the other man on Earth, Nature, whom man is fighting for the top spot. To Wordsworth, Nature is alive and has feelings, the same as the human man. He proves this by making everything so full of life and happy to be alive, such as the little birds, throughout the poem, starting from the first stanza to the last. In the first stanza, he is listening to the sounds of Nature while he is relaxing. He describes everything around him in the rest of the poem.
Wordsworth gives life to everything in this poem. He sees periwinkle, trailing its wreaths through the primrose tufts, flowers around him that are alive, and enjoying every breath that they take. He also sees little birds hopping and playing. He cannot understand what they are thinking. He does not understand why the birds like to hop and play, ...
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