Lines Possessed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Woodsworth Analysis

Woodsworth, Barabauld, and Rousseau all have great poems with distinct features from their lives and the poems which include the importance of childhood. Not only was it important in some of their poems but also throughout their lives. The three authors, Wordsworth, Barbauld, and Rosseau all share common characteristics in their poems and lives, with the use of the importance of childhood freedom, the different influences in childhood , and also the way the authors' childhoods developed.

Woodsworth was an orphan at the age of thirteen and he was left greatly in debt from his father and very poor. He was separated from his sister and he found his safe place in nature. He is known for "discovering the romantic child" (web.uk.edu). Woolworth felt that nature was the best way to teach a child and that it made it where the child gained a lot of memories and safe places from nature. In the poem "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," Woodsworth uses great imagery and talks of many memories he gains throughout his experiences with nature. "Five years have past;five summers with the length Of five long winters and again I hear These waters, rolling
She also believed in childhood development and innocence. "Washing Day" was one of her poems that is about a child looking from the perspectives of their own and then also the perspective from the people surrounding the child that day. In washing day she shows the woman she is then and the child she was. She also here explains the importance of influences throughout childhood and how they affect how one is whenever they are an adult. Their are quotes in this poem that shows the innocence of childhood; "Of pipe amused we blew, and sent aloft The floating bubbles.."(Barbauld Washing Day). All of the authors has similar aspects in their use of childhood