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Nature is Sacred; The Definition of Poetry

The poet establishes in the first two stanzas the mood of nature when he traveled on the moor. The
tense can be confusing. Wordsworth begins in the simple past, but the past serves here the uses of the
present in the sense of active recollection of emotion in present tranquility.

2.Subjectivity.

the poet’s morning is one subjectivity of dejection; on this morning did ” fears and fancies” come upon
him profusely.

3.Pantheistic View : Unity with Nature.

In the midst of ” the sky-lark warbling in the sky,” he likens himself unto ” the playful hare”; even such a
happy child of earth am I / even as these blissful creatures do I fare; / far from the world I walk, and
from all care….’ This is the joyous side of his life. But, in the midst of the joy, he thinks of that other
kind of day that might come to him, that day of ‘ solitude, pain of heart, distress, and poverty.”

4.Nature as a Source for Wisdom

The beginning of stanza 8 marks a turning point in the poem. From this juncture to the end, the poet will
tell how he learned what we find in the title, resolution and independence, and he learns significantly
from a wanderer, a man who has subsisted on the gathering of leeches, a man who is now a beggar. As
the poet thinks his ” untoward thoughts” about life and struggles with all their depressing suggestions,
he meets in a lovely place.

5.Sons of Nature and Transcendentalism.

The encounter reveals to the poet a man of great age, bent double, ” feet and head / coming together in
life’s pilgrimage….” He looks as if he might be made taut in his bent posture by the tight strain of some
past suffering, rage, or sickness. The poet is picturing him as very nearly supernatural, at least somehow
beyond the usual scope of human experience