"Lines Written In Early Spring"- Blog 2

“Lines written in Early Spring”, by William Wordsworth explores self-imposed boundaries such as positive and negative thoughts and a boundary that man has imposed by building cities and destroying nature.

The persona uses personification by which he gives nature the ability to create links with the human soul. The Pathetic Fallacy has also been used by the way the persona feels linked to nature.

To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;

Personification is used again in the third and fourth stanza when flowers are endowed with particular human abilities such as breathing and enjoying and the birds hopping playing which might be pleasurable for them. He suggests that the birds have no boundaries because they are free in nature.

And ‘tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.

The birds around me hopped and played,
Their thoughts I cannot measure:
But the least motion which they made
It seemed a thrill of pleasure.

A pun is used to describe the effects of modernisation, which has destroyed the link with nature. The persona wonders about the directions taken by mankind, as he does again at the end of the poem.

What man has made of man?

By Tiffani.Mungoven