![]() ![]() Wordsworth explains, “The sounding cataract / Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, / The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, / Their colours and their forms, were then to me / An appetite a feeling and a love” (Wordsworth 76-80). He associates his struggles with his identity, to the fear of separation from nature and his past self. He seems to fear alienation from who he was and as a result, from nature. He then reaches the point where he acknowledges his lack of certainty with who he was before, for he realizes that he is talking about how nature made him feel in the past. He refers to “her ” as his all in all nature was ‘it’ for him, he loved it without limitations. He is consciously aware of the importance of nature to him personally alongside its role. ![]() At this stage, Wordsworth realizes the full essence of nature and how it is everything for him. “For nature then, To me was all in all.-I cannot paint/ What then I was” (Wordsworth 72, 75-76). However, it’s with time that Wordsworth finds himself actually appreciating and seizing the beauty of nature. He compares it to a man who is avoiding something he feels apprehensive about. ![]() Wordsworth has yet to grasp the true essence of the beauty of nature at first. “Wherever nature led: more like a man / Flying from something that he dreads, than one / Who sought the thing he loved” (Wordsworth 70-72). With that being said, the poet shares the struggles he faced when coming to the realization of his true love for nature. Wordsworth feminizes nature with the use of descriptive language, excluding the feminine presence from the poem, therefore prominently speaking from a male perspective.Īccording to Barry, the term feminine is used to refer to “a set of culturally defined characteristics”. This creates a question for the readers: Is wordsworth showing appreciation to women through his love for nature or is he excluding them and focusing on his own male perspective on nature? William Wordsworth strategically uses descriptive language to feminize nature. Wordsworth also has a way of excluding the feninine perspective of nature by not mentioning or including his dear sister and friend Dorothy until the end of the poem. Observing and interacting with nature allows him to feel the joy of what it is like to reflect on all of the things he loves about nature and what it meant to him in the past without denial. Wordsworth feels a strong sense of something pulling him back, not in a rough or harsh way, but more in a joyous reflective way. In Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth asserts “Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power / To chasten and subdue - And I have felt / A presence that disturbs me with the joy / Of elevated thoughts ” (Wordsworth 92-95). He does an exquisite job depicting exactly what nature means to him, as a man. Soft, beauteous, boyish, tranquil, and dear are all adjectives used to describe his love for, and experience with nature. Through the usage of descriptive language, William Wordsworth, is able to express his cavernous love and appreciation for women. There are many qualities that can be associated with females or women in general. Over the course of history, Romanticism has been known to associate nature with being feminine or a woman. ![]()
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