Comparing Wordsworth And Berlioz

In these lines Wordsworth writes about when he was younger and the memories he has which he can never replicate. He's haunted by the beauty of the the rocks, the mountains and the woods. He thinks about the charms of the scenery, how it looks at the time, how it looked in the past and it’s gifts. He gains pleasure from the scenery and reminisces about how nature inspired him even in his younger days, how it what he was looking at would possibly inspire him in later days. Of the Romantic composers we learned about, I feel Hector Berlioz has the most similar feel to his music to Wordsworth poems. Wordsworth has his beliefs based in nature while Berlioz’s music has a fantasy feel that is almost like ballet with more faerie like sound. I feel
Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique" is aptly named due to my perceived undertones of slightly sad, opera or ballet music that sounds almost like faeries dancing through the woods. Both Berloiz and Wordsworth's work has a strong influence from nature and a sad almost nostalgic tone to them. The part of “Symophie Fantastique” named The Ball takes the idea of a faerie dance a step further with tinkling noises and a very “Cinderella at the ball right before midnight” feeling with the idea of meeting a beloved in a glittering party. This piece from Berlioz has a nature influence in my mind, with another influence from the fantastic and myths of the forests. Both “Symphonie Fantastique” and “Tintern Abbey” have dreamlike ideas, with Wordsworth thinking back on his younger days and Berlioz writing about meeting a beloved at a glittering party. Both have influences from nature, I like to think as the glittering fete of Berlioz’s piece as an outdoor ball under the glittering stars, and an almost fantastic view of their subject matter. The two artists lived at very different times and had different views on the fantastic, with Wordsworth believing nature itself was all he needed and Berlioz creating a faerie tale story for his piece.