In William Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality" Wordsworth uses the beauty and innocence of nature to characterize how great youth and childhood is. Wordsworth believes that as you grow older you lose the sense of freedom because your responsibilities become too much of a weight on your back and you fall into a dull routine. This routine causes adults to ignore the beauty that they are surrounded by.
             In the first stanza Wordsworth uses the color and brilliance of nature to first present his argument that when you are young you view everything as marvelous and new but as you grow up everything is not as lively.
             There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
             Wordsworth is making his argument right from the first four lines that as a child he viewed everything as if it was astounding to the eye. The use of the words "celestial light" makes it sound as if he was shocked by every beautiful thing he saw and could not focus on anything but its great brilliance. But following these great lines about nature and its beauty, Wordsworth writes,
             It is not now as it hath been of yore; -
             The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
             Now he is saying that since he is older and does not take the time to appreciate what is around him, he can "see no more" of the beauty.
             In the second stanza Wordsworth brings these wonderful images into your mind of nature by describing them in such a way so that you have to visualize them. He uses many of the most astounding images on Earth such as a rainbow, a rose, the moon, the heavens, stars, and the sunshine. When one sees any of these truly amazing things they usually do not stop and stare at its beauty and complexity but rather takes it for granted that it would be there tomorrow. When a child first sees a rainbow or the stars they gaze at them as if they are seeing a ghost because they are totally amazed and bewildered as to wha...