In his poem, “Lines Written in the Early Spring,” William Wordsworth gives us insight into his views of the destruction of nature. Using personification, he makes nature seem to be full of life and happy to be living. Yet, man still is destroying what he sees as “Nature’s holy plan” (8). The entire poem is about the interaction between nature and man. Wordsworth is clearly not happy about the things that man has done to …showed first 75 words of 836 total…

…showed last 75 words of 836 total…wants, to kill the Nature that he grew up with and that his children will grow up with. He poses that question to everyone who reads the poem. Imagine how much of Nature was destroyed when Wordsworth wrote this poem, and now look at what is gone and compare it. There is not going to be a lot of groves left like the one that he is sitting in if man continues to destroy them.