William Wordsworth uses the romantic trademark of nature and innocence to criticize how the human species feels, thinks and acts. While he doesn't directly say how that is, he insinuates to the reader that it is shameful when compared to the way nature works. At first glance, you would not expect such a powerful statement from a poem called, "Lines Written in Early Spring". The title itself is vague, but it gives the impression of renewed life and beauty. Indeed, there are some vivid references to the sounds, sights, and emotions of nature in the springtime; however, this is just used as a way to compare and contrast society and nature.
             One might wonder when reading, "I heard a thousand blended notes/While in a grove I sate reclined"(1-2), how the words, "it griev'd my heart", could be associated in the same poem. In the first stanza we get a satisfying feeling of sitting among the trees and hearing the musical rhythmic sounds of nature. A relaxed, peaceful tone is set with the words, "sweet mood"(3), and "pleasant thoughts" (3) in the first stanza, but then destroyed in the same stanza with, "Bring sad thoughts to mind"(4). It is a bit confusing until the reader completes the poem and sees that Wordsworth is trying to express that man can never fully enjoy such a feeling without feeling sorrow for "What man has made of man"(8), no matter how beautiful the picture looks. Basically, "To her fair works did nature link/The human soul that through me ran"(5). Nature's honest and true effort to produce such a pleasing effect brings about a feeling of guilt to humans. It is human nature to see something beautiful and be reminded of something ugly; in this case the ugly is imbedded in "the human soul". (5) The speaker is "griev'd"(7) when he sees the purity of nature and compares it to the not so pure societ...