William Wordsworth’s poetry is characterized by the poet’s visionary sympathy with the countryside of his birth, which was more powerful for him than any conventional religion. His association with Nature has given him his true education. His poetry provides an affirmation of the relationship between the natural world and the inner self of man. Nature provides a direct personal experience to the poet.
His poetic style was nearer to the folk-poetic style, plain and bare, devoid of decorative figures of speech.
“ To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears”
True to the times, Wordsworth too was a Romantic in his preoccupation with the ideal and the mysterious, looking for that epiphany or vision which would bridge this mortal self with the immortal or everlasting.
“ One impulse from the vernal wood
Can teach you more of man
Of moral evil and good
Than all sages can”
Who has not felt the simple joy that fills the heart when we read The Daffodils or the Solitary Reaper? The magic of the poems will linger forever; “Long after they are heard no more”