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The Nature of Wordsworth's Childhood
Title: The Nature of Wordsworth's Childhood
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1159 | Pages: 4.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Nature of Wordsworth's Childhood
The Nature of Wordsworth’s Childhood
An Explication of To a Butterfly
To A Butterfly
Stay near me – do not take thy flight!
A little longer stay in sight!
Much converse do I find in thee,
Historian of my infancy!
Float near me; do not yet depart!
Dead times revive in thee:
Thou bring’st, gay creature as thou art!
A solemn image to my heart,
My father’s family!
Oh! Pleasant, pleasant were the …showed first 75 words of 1159 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1159 total…childhood. We drift through these memories, glimpsing the Wordsworth of his youth, and by the end of the poem are made to realize how in many ways the child in Wordsworth is still alive. Yet as a man, the means of expression for the joys he feels in experiencing nature have changed. We come to the end of the poem, and in doing so have experienced ourselves the product of this change: the poem itself.
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