William Wordsworth’s Philosophy of Nature

William Wordsworth has respect or more, capital reverence for temperament. This is evident in both of the poems Ode Intimations of Immortality and Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey in that, his ism on graven image, immortality and innocence are elucidated in his contact with nature. For Wordsworth, nature had a spirit, a soul of its own, and to agnize is so is to experience nature with all the five senses. In both his poems there are some references to seeing, hearing and feeling his surroundings.He speaks of mountains, the woods, the rivers and streams, and the fields. Wordsworth realized, in each of us, there is a natural affinity for a certain ambit for nature. To elaborate, a fisher homosexual would be most comfortable in a setting where he can be beside the sea, which is beside the shore. His affinity towards nature is oriented to the sea. In the selfsame(prenominal) way, a ward would like to be near meadows and fields and near lush rolling hills. Wordswort hs affinity would be to mountains, woods, rivers, streams, and fields.He kfresh the sprit, the soul and the feel of these places for he was able to experience these places in the fullness of youth (Sparknotes, n. d. ). both(prenominal) of these poems by Wordsworth are poems of recollection and in these recollections, Wordsworth came across something that was truly immortal Nature and its soul. Though change, demise and destruction might be normal occurrences that come to nature, there is rebirth and continuity to life. As in death and destruction, human endeavors are also mortal and temporary when compared to nature and its spirit.Nonetheless, though these things are solo mortal, or temporary, they are still as much a part of it as much as water droplets individually make up a river. Of unremembered pleasure such, perhaps,/As have no slight or trivial influence/On that best portion of a good mans life ,/His little nameless, unremembered, acts (Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Ti ntern Abbey, stanza 2) portray life and all its endeavors as mundane to something immortal like nature and its spirit.Still these aspects of everyday life are swept by by the strong force that binds the spirit of nature to its occupants. These sentiments are expressed in Ode as tumesce Though nothing can bring back the hour/Of splendor in the grass, or anchor ring in flower/We will grieve not, rather find/Strength in what remains toilet/In the primal sympathy/Which having been must ever be/In that soothing thought that leak/Out of human suffering (Ode Intimations of Immortality, stanza 10).Wordsworth also speaks of his memory of childhood or innocence retraced in communing with nature in his adult years saying nature has the power to unearth those memories for a grown man to reflect upon. (Sparknotes, n. d. ) In Ode, he celebrates the gift of childhood memory or of innocence sharing the same insights in Tintern Abbey by expressing his delight to find himself once more with natu re. As a young male child he delighted in his every interaction with nature. Nature made his day.Though, times have changed, he does not mourn nor shed a tear from this bittersweet memory of childhood rather Wordsworth, reminisces with new insights or what he claims as mature gifts that comes with growing up, the childhood memories becoming more valuable by the discovery of a philosophic mind. Innocence is not all lost but can be retraced through nature, nature reminding what has been lost and found. In the midst of his contemplation with nature, he discovers a far great power beyond humanity, the presence of God in nature, Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting Not in entire forgetfulness, / And not in utter nakedness, /But trailing clouds of glory do we come / From God, who is our home/ Heaven lies about in our infancy (Ode Intimations of Immortality,stanza 5) from Ode . He discusses further the relationship of God in Nature in Tintern Abbey. He goes, a motion and a spirit th at impels / All intellection thoughts / And rolls through all things, (Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, stanza 4) beyond nature, an energy spurs him to weigh upon clean being.