.."(Wordsworth, 428) Nature thus becomes an all-powerful voice for the youth, who can now understand its sacredness and its true meaning as the personification of God's love on earth. As Gaskell observes therefore, there is clearly a mutual interdependence between the spirit of Nature and that of man: "The relationship between Nature and the mind is one of mutual dependence. Ontologically they are equally real; neither has, nor should have, priority."(Gaskell, 36) for Wordsworth, the love of nature is the very structuring force of his development as a poet. The self can only evolve through its relationship with the whole, with the mighty voice of the universe and of God himself.
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Gaskell, Ronald. Wordsworth's Poem of the Mind: An Essay on 'The Prelude'. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991.
Harding, Anthony John. "Wordsworth's Prelude, Tracey Emin, and Romantic Autobiography." Wordsworth Circle 34.2 (Spring 2003): 59(7).
Philmus, Robert M. "Wordsworth and the interpretation of dreams." Papers on Language & Literature 31.n2…
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Works Cited
Gaskell, Ronald. Wordsworth's Poem of the Mind: An Essay on 'The Prelude'. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1991.
Harding, Anthony John. "Wordsworth's Prelude, Tracey Emin, and Romantic Autobiography." Wordsworth Circle 34.2 (Spring 2003): 59(7).
Philmus, Robert M. "Wordsworth and the interpretation of dreams." Papers on Language & Literature 31.n2 (Spring 1995): 184(22).
Smith, J. Mark. "Unrememberable' sound in Wordsworth's 1799 Prelude." Studies in Romanticism 42.4 (Winter 2003): 501(19).
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