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Why did peggotty take David to visit her brother? |
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Answer» Wordsworth has been called greatest poet of Nature. This does not "mean that his poetry is only about trees, forests, hills and valleys. This great romantic poet has a comprehensive philosophic vision.This vision includes the whole cosmos of which man and nature are but parts. Thus wordsworth is more a poet of man than of nature. In any case, he does not see man apart from Nature. Real knowledge and wisdom are born out of man's communion with nature. Thus wordsworth is always the hero of his poem. He explores meaning in man's life and finds it only in man's communion with nature, This poet even reaches god-head through nature.Nature is as much a scripture of God as is the Bible. True, in the Daffodils the poet gives the picture of nature in a few of its aspects.At the centre are the golden daffodils dancing and tossing their heads along the edge of the Grasmere lake.There is the gentle wind that gives them motion to dance. The waves in the water of the take are also dancing. The there are the comparison of the unending line of daffodils with the unending line milkyway made up of twinkling stars, Then at the focal point is the poet himself with a deep concern: I gazed and gazed but littler thought What wealth the-show to me had brought That is exploring a meaning in Nature. Wordsworth of course finds it.In the school of nature he learns geat truths and wisdom. He developes a philosophic mind that can see beyond the present and even beyond the terrestrial existence. Thus when he is lonely and depressed and the present is shorn of all meaning, the past comes to his rescue. The experience of the past come into the present and the poet is saved from depression and lineliness. The sights of the past as of the daffodils flash on his inner eyes. And then my heart with pleasure fills. And dances with the daffodils. |
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