Lines Written in Early Spring, by William Wordsworth

The poem "Lines Written in Early Spring" by William Wordsworth. It explores how modernism is affecting nature and creating boundaries between the two and how some things are free from boundaries, like birds.

He uses imagery to describe the look of Spring and give the reader a clear, peaceful image in their mind:

"The budding twigs spread out their fan,"

"Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,

The periwinkle trailed its wreaths;"

The persona uses pathetic fallacy to describe his feelings about how modernism has destroyed the link with nature and man:

"To her fair works did Nature link

The human soul that through me ran;

And much it grieved my heart to think

What man has made of man."

By Kaylee Ayscough