Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey

I want to focus on the line “The still, sad music of humanity (Wordsworth 113).”When Wordsworth said this I believe he was feeling the cycle of life in nature. The sad truth of humanity is that everything changes and dies no matter how beautiful or how bad we want it to stay the same. I think animals and humans have a drive to survive and when you realize that no matter what you do, your body and what you know here on earth will die; there is a sense of stillness in the world for that person at that moment. Prior to this quote Wordsworth stated that he no longer looked upon nature as he had when he was younger, thoughtlessly. I think he contrasts this with the idea that now he looks upon nature in deep thought because now he understands the depth of the cycle of life. Not just birth and death, but the process by which youth fades away and all the thoughts and heartaches that accompany it. When we discussed Simon Lee in class, we talked about how he was facing his own humanity in that he was aged and waiting for death and no longer able to do the things he could do in his youth. I felt a deep sadness for Simon Lee and now I’m starting to find that sadness shifting towards Wordsworth as he seemed to be deeply connected to nature, humanity as a whole, the cycle of life and the deep thoughts that can accompany such realizations.
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