![]() ![]() At the same time, he is thrilled to be in a place that once was home to his heroes, including poets like John Milton. He experiences a degree of culture shock as, separated from the rustic surroundings of his childhood, he confronts an atmosphere of pretension and inauthenticity. In Book Third, the speaker leaves home to attend Cambridge. Wordsworth advances a typically Romantic idea that an individual's childhood influences and experiences continue to shape them throughout their lives. This in itself plays into another Romantic interest: childhood. He also argues that nature, having been established as an important part of his life early on, remains an ever-present element of his work and worldview. The speaker (who shares much with Wordsworth himself, but who can be seen as a distinct, imaginative persona in his own right) advances the pantheistic idea that God and nature are inseparable. Here, nature appears as a benevolent but extremely powerful force. ![]() The first two books of The Preludedescribe the speaker's early attachment to the natural beauty of his native Lake District, in the north of England. ![]()
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