Post by sophied02 on May 1, 2008 20:39:17 GMT -5
Emerson's beliefs, especially those seen in the first chapter of "Nature", are strongly expressed in William Wordsworth's poem "Composed a few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour". The title alone shows how Wordsworth is going along with what Emerson describes as returning to nature in order to find one's true oversoul because it describes a "revisiting". His inspiration for this poem springs from an astounding view of nature. Wordsworth tells the audience how this view has been a part of him since the first time he saw it and how it has often returned to him in lonely moments. Emerson describes how a man must resort to solitude in order to find himself and this mirrors Wordsworth's actions because he is reminded of Nature- a part of his oversoul, along with Man and God- during moments alone. Wordsworth describes how the view of nature imprinted in his mind is "felt in the blood, and felt along the heart" just as Emerson describes how nature's "floods of life stream around and through us" almost like blood. Wordsworth also begins to explain a "blessed mood...in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world, is lightened" which is similar to the state of mind which Emerson believes a person achieves after looking into themselves and not out into society.