William Wordsworth's - Lines Written in Early Spring

'Lines Written in Early Spring', is a poem by William Wordsworth written from the persona of somebody trying describe a grove; a small wood or forested area, usually with no undergrowth in early spring. Many boundaries are present in the text, not so much physical boundaries but more moral and mental boundaries. A common thing that most people would probably use in a text like this is Pathetic Fallacy. Wordsworth does exactly this describing the persona as linked to nature.

Bring sad thoughts to the mind.
To her fair works did Nature link
The human soul that through me ran;

A language technique that Wordsworth uses that is rather clever is the pun that he uses when he is referring to the grief in his heart when he thinks of the man made factories we create. This is a great way to describe the effects of modernisation on the environment and our link with nature.

And much it grieved my heart to think
What man has made of man
Through primrose tufts, in that green bower

An excellent example of 'boundaries' is the boundaries that we have created between ourselves and nature. Instead of living in harmony with nature we have begun to take advantage and abuse it which has back fired on us in the form of global warming. It is an example of a mental boundary.