The important thing worth noting is that even though the perception of things has changed the overflow of emotion has not. .

             This same type of recognition can be see in "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," where the poet is reflecting on what was and comparing it to what is now. His memory of five years is triggered by the waters, whose "rolling from their mountain-springs/With a soft inland murmur" (Lines 3-4). Again, we see how the poem is triggered not only by the poet's experience but also his emotional response to how things have changed. The hills served as an escape for him as he follow "Wherever nature lead: more like a man/ Flying from something that he dreads, than one/who sought the thing he loved" (Lines 67-8, 70-2). Here we see the young boy relating to nature and experiencing it in its fullness. As the poet matures and returns to the same place, he realizes his connection to nature and how "The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,/Their colours and their forms, were then to me/An appetite; a feeling and a love" (78-80). This passage indicates a change much like the one we see in "Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." He acknowledges that a change has occurred but that the change is not necessarily negative, though it may sadden him slightly. The powerful overflow of feeling that arises within him is "To look on nature, not as in the hour/Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes/The still, sad music of humanity" (89-91). The experience also places within him "presence that disturbs me with the joy of elated thoughts; a sense sublime/Of something far more deeply interfused" (94-6). Here we see how the poet accepts how life changes and can still appreciate the beauty of nature. .

             In "The Prelude," Wordsworth explores the change that has occurred within him through observing his relationship with nature. In the first book, the poet tells of his youthful days spent in the green fields away from the city.