Wordsworth greatest love was, " a passionate devotion to Wild Nature." Wordsworth nature poetry shows how nature affected him. To Wordsworth's eyes nature was a presence that disturbed him. The presence of nature did not disturb him in a bad way. It did not bother or made him feel sad. But in fact it was more of a distraction rather than a disturbance. It distracted him away from his life . Nature would make Wordsworth just stop and think what a beautiful, and peaceful place it is. All of these feelings that Wordsworth feel he expresses them in most of his poem, " Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey" Wordsworth has certain lines that express his feeling . The live , " These beauteous forms, through a long absence, have not been to me as is a landscape to a blind man's eye," Wordsworth os talking about the beautiful forms of nature that have never left his vision. A landscape to a blind man's eye is nothing because he cant see it. To Wordsworth the landscape is always in his vision and its not to him like a blind man is to him, "nothing".
Through Wordsworth's travels and exploration he was always in financial crisis. Wordsworth had a friend, Raisley Calvert who in 1795 died, due to his unfortunate death Raisley left Wordsworth nine hundred pounds. With this money Wordsworth was able to start over again. He also able to set up a household that stood in Dorsetshire. With his sister next to him at all times she became Wordsworth inspiration and confidant. Wordsworth at this time met the most interesting person to him, Samuel Taylor Culeridge, who then with Wordsworth began a poetic collaboration that also sparked the English Romantic Movement. Also, in 1798, Lyrical Ballads was published which includes Wordsworth greatest nature poems.
In "Tintern-Abbey" Wordsworth shows how he sees his sister as an Inspiration and nature his Love, "My dear, dear sister! And this prayer I make, knowing that Nature never did betrayed the heart that loved her.
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