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The speakers of Wordsworth’s poems are inveterate wanderers:
they roam solitarily, they travel over the moors, they take private
walks through the highlands of Scotland. Active wandering allows
the characters to experience and participate in the vastness and
beauty of the natural world. Moving from place to place also allows
the wanderer to make discoveries about himself. In “I travelled
among unknown men” (
Memory allows Wordsworth’s speakers to overcome the harshness
of the contemporary world. Recollecting their childhoods gives adults
a chance to reconnect with the visionary power and intense relationship
they had with nature as children. In turn, these memories encourage
adults to re-cultivate as close a relationship with nature as possible
as an antidote to sadness, loneliness, and despair. The act of remembering
also allows the poet to write: Wordsworth argued in the
Throughout his poems, Wordsworth fixates on vision and
sight as the vehicles through which individuals are transformed.
As speakers move through the world, they see visions of great natural
loveliness, which they capture in their memories. Later, in moments
of darkness, the speakers recollect these visions, as in “I wandered
lonely as a cloud.” Here, the speaker daydreams of former jaunts
through nature, which “flash upon that inward eye / which is the
bliss of solitude” (
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