As is a landscape to a blind man's eye:.
But oft, in lonely rooms and "mid the din.
Of towns and cities, I have owed to them,.
In hours of weariness, sensations sweet,.
Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart;.
And passing even into my purer mind,.
With tranquil restoration:-feelings too.
Of unremembered pleasure: .
Although the above passage seems to contain a "sad" quality regarding "humanities" effects on the natural world, especially to the poet who derives the meaning of his being from the natural world, there is an aspect of dependence on the metropolitan experience pertaining to Wordsworth growth and enlightened reasoning. As a youth Wordsworth is consumed by the "beauteous forms" of the natural world without regard to the dependency of the commercial world on Nature and was "thoughtless" regarding the effects of repetitive expose to commercialism on humanity, which often times leads to a demystification of Nature. During the five year period Wordsworth spent in the city it .
appears as though he is almost consumed by the monotonous state of affairs of urban life. However, is not until his return to Tintern Abbey after both previous stages of his life that Wordsworth could acutely interpret memories from both phases of his life and "connect" to the "sublime" in a truly enlightened state. .
Wordsworth, in the "blessed mood", is able to see "into the life of things" as he contemplates nature from a more mature perspective. Herald Bloom states that "seeing in to the life of things is to see things for themselves and not their potential use" (410). After having the experiences of his youth and the experiences of urban life, when he is granted the "power" to interpret and eventually integrate the "sublime" purpose of Nature in his multifaceted being.
