Tequila Ezell Reading Response 1
Tequila Ezell
Reading Response 2
World Literature 2
“The Child is the Father of the Man”
William Wordsworth provides good influences on the human mind through nature and children in his writings. It can be easily understood that children are closer to God, as well as nature. Natural beauty and innocence are often visualized through the eye sight of children. As I travel down memory lane, I can reminisce the most enjoyable experiences when I was child on a farm. Careless and carefree at play having no sense of the surrounding dangers. The simple smell of the burning oak takes me back to the barrel of fires used to keep us warm while outside during winter. The walks home from school eating blackberries the whole trip. The rooster being my alarm clock at 6 am sharp every morning. I can relate too many of Wordsworth writings simply because I am in tuned with my inner child; like Wordsworth he delivered and portrayed his love for his childhood through his writing until death. The positive and life nurturing impressions that get deeply etched in our minds when we are small children remain with us for the rest of our adult life.
Wordsworth respected nature as his God and it was his main outlet of spiritual comfort and escape from all the cares of this world. The memory of the “rainbow” represents or is linked to childhood, adulthood and his old age translated as past, present, and future. Nature is being portrayed as the goodness of life represented by the rainbow. “The Child is the Father of the Man,” gives you both nature and childhood. The man is the product of his habits and behavior developed in the adolescence stage. In abstract, if we develop love for nature as a child we will continue loving our surroundings and nature in later stages of our life. Also in this line it could be Religious in nature, we can think of this line as the child Jesus, the father God, and the man is everyone on Earth. Wordsworth poems are some of my favorite readings and as long as I
Reading Response 2
World Literature 2
“The Child is the Father of the Man”
William Wordsworth provides good influences on the human mind through nature and children in his writings. It can be easily understood that children are closer to God, as well as nature. Natural beauty and innocence are often visualized through the eye sight of children. As I travel down memory lane, I can reminisce the most enjoyable experiences when I was child on a farm. Careless and carefree at play having no sense of the surrounding dangers. The simple smell of the burning oak takes me back to the barrel of fires used to keep us warm while outside during winter. The walks home from school eating blackberries the whole trip. The rooster being my alarm clock at 6 am sharp every morning. I can relate too many of Wordsworth writings simply because I am in tuned with my inner child; like Wordsworth he delivered and portrayed his love for his childhood through his writing until death. The positive and life nurturing impressions that get deeply etched in our minds when we are small children remain with us for the rest of our adult life.
Wordsworth respected nature as his God and it was his main outlet of spiritual comfort and escape from all the cares of this world. The memory of the “rainbow” represents or is linked to childhood, adulthood and his old age translated as past, present, and future. Nature is being portrayed as the goodness of life represented by the rainbow. “The Child is the Father of the Man,” gives you both nature and childhood. The man is the product of his habits and behavior developed in the adolescence stage. In abstract, if we develop love for nature as a child we will continue loving our surroundings and nature in later stages of our life. Also in this line it could be Religious in nature, we can think of this line as the child Jesus, the father God, and the man is everyone on Earth. Wordsworth poems are some of my favorite readings and as long as I