Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree

"Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree" by Wordsworth tells the story of a man who goes through a change in his v life. When the man was young, he "went forth, pure in his heart, against the taint of dissolute tongues, 'gainst jealousy, and hate, and scorn, against all enemies prepared." He was a man pure in heart when he was younger, but was not aware of what the real world was like. Once he saw all of these values that he disagrees with in his society, the man decides to separate himself from it and essentially becomes a hermit. He goes and lives in nature in solitude.

While in nature, the man experiences a feeling of "morbid pleasure" from the beauty around him in nature. His heart could not "sustain the beauty" and "the beauty still more beauteous." After seeing his surroundings, the man in my opinion becomes a little self-obsessed. He does not truly appreciate nature still in my opinion. I think he feels this great feeling because he is away from everyone else in he world he feels as though he is better because of it. But because he isolates himself, he is unable to have relationships with other people. So he is unable to feel all of the true emotions that come with nature and so he dies.

The last part of the poem tells the moral of the story which is that we need to use nature for it's correct purpose, appreciating it with our imagination and learning from it. In the end we will become a better person from it. The man in the poem used nature as a way to see how much better he was than everybody else. As a result, he did not use his imagination and see the true beauty of everything. This kind of goes along with all of the other poems that we have read that involve an isolated person such as the mariner and Harry Gill.