William Wordsworth: Letting Nature be your Teacher

One of the central writers of the English Romanticism movement, William Wordsworth was a man in love with nature and lived to share that adoration with the world. Insistent on using phrasing that was more colloquial to the average reader, Wordsworth’s poems offered a refreshing reprieve from the otherwise stuffy language that was praised at the time-a sentiment that anyone who studied poetry in school can heartily side with. His writings spoke of a world that lived in harmony with nature and lamented the distancing between the two. To Wordsworth, writing from the soul was not simply the height of human expression, but the right as members of the human race. To write poetry from the heart is to have reached through life itself and speak of the wonders you had found within. A lofty goal, to be sure, but one that is far simpler than meets the eye. Walking away into nature- taking quiet moments of reflection and truthfully writing the feelings that come forward once the dull roar of the day to day has died down is finding that gentle voice inside you. To write it is to take the peace you’ve found in yourself and nature and craft it into a beautiful truth. To share it is to offer wisdom that can only be found once one is fully among the beauty of the world.

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