ts of life, the fact is that even in one of his most idyllic works, "Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, On Revisiting The Banks of the Wye During A Tour, July 13, 1798," he makes clear that nature was a transcendent force rather than something to use to ignore the darker side of life:
I came among these hills; when like a roe
I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides
Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams,
Wherever nature led; more like a man
Flying from something that he dreads than one
Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then
(The coarser pleasures of my boyish days,
And their glad animal movements all gone by)
We see Wordsworth here is clearly acknowledging the darker side of life, the end of childhood innocence, and the restorative powers of nature. He is not trying to hide from the harder facts of life in nature, but is rather arguing that nature offers consolation from that darker side of life.
Wordsworth's poetry is full of images which attempt to give to the reader his sense of the wonders of nature and the power that nature has to encourage a human being, especially a sufferi
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