Book Second 1805..Lines 285-320

After reading the sections of Book Second over and over trying to determine Wordsworth’s true connection between the love and nature and growth in a person, lines 284 through 320 began to explain. In the beginning of this book, Wordsworth makes it clear that the as a child many develop a love for nature. It somehow has an internal impact on the development of children into adolescents and then into adults. Lines 284 through 288 mention the happiness of youth and anticipating the knowledge that one desires. According to Wordsworth, this knowledge is brought through seasons and its changing qualities. Basically the love for nature that a child develops makes the child able to adapt to whatever changes they are crossed with in life. It teaches them lessons that they often take heed to.

Lines 294 through 298: “Hence, life, and changes, and beauty, solitude More active even than ‘best society’, Society made sweet as solitude By silent inobtrusive sympathies, And gentle agitations of the mind….”. Wordsworth’s interpretation of this is that sometimes maturity is best to on ones own or through nature. To me his remark about solitude being more active than the best society, or loneliness being more efficient in raising someone, seems reasonable because with society everyone has their different opinions on what is correct and what isn’t. People constantly want you to conform to their lifestyles and the way that their life is ran leaving no open space for you to establish your own qualities and characteristics. Regardless of if the society was made sweet where a person wasn’t overpowered by politics and beliefs, people learn through observation, and if a person isn’t being pressured into doing something, most of the time they are looking at the actions of a person and being influenced. So allowing nature to develop a person into the person they want to be is a better way to age.