“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.” This was a quote told by William Wordsworth, who was a poet from the first generation of the Romanticism. The Romanticism was an artistic literally period in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. Poetry from the romantic period placed great emphasis on nature as a living personality and meant that company of nature gives joy to the human heart. This was also the essence of what William Wordsworth’s poems revolved around. “The world is too much with us” and “The tables turned” are too poems written by William Wordsworth, and they are both good examples of the typical characteristics in poems from the romanticism.
In both of the poems is it William Wordsworth himself who is the narrator; we can see this because, it is his own aspects about nature in its ordinary and its moral influence there is expressed. Both of the poems contain a lot of figurative language, which is a typical characteristic for the romanticism. One of them is nature-related personification, where the poet is trying to give nature human characteristics to inanimate it and to make the reader imagine things different. An example of a personification in “The tables turned” is on line 16: “ Let Nature be your Teacher”, here William Wordsworth is trying to tell us that one cannot truly learn about the world in books and that we should learn from nature itself. Another example of this is in “The world is too much with us” on line 7: “Like sleeping flowers”, here he gives the flowers human properties, because we all know that flowers cannot sleep. Metaphors are also common in the poems as an implied comparison, which is used as giving a more visual description of the word or thoughts. In “The world is too much with us” is there an example in line 5: “That sea that bares her bosom to the moon”, in this metaphor is “her” a symbol of mother nature and a woman’s bosom is a symbol for fertility. So William Wordsworth is trying to describe the nature, as something that should move us and he tries to make us see, how the sea appears to him in it’s relation to the moon. An example from “The tables turned” is on line 19: “Spontaneous wisdom breathed by health” from this we can see that he is expressing to us, that mother natures wisdom is the roots of happiness.
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