![]() Those who nurture a child from infancy have the greatest control over what our world will be like in the next generation. Psychologists and social scientists seem to agree that the first four years of life are the most formative and, in fact, establish someone's character for life. ![]() The child is surely to become father to the man. ![]() This is what it appears to have done in Wordsworth’s case in 1802. One of the merits of a pun is that it can trigger off a series of related ideas. It was a pun which he exploited in two other poems. Except for the grace of God, which can transform every human being from the depts of despair to the heights of joy, I know of no other way to redeem such a soul. ‘The Rainbow’ and the ‘Ode’ gave him a rare opportunity for making a serious, meaningful, geometrical pun. Such a person, whose days are bound one to another with memories of an unlovely world, will not understand the delight others find in nature. And yet, had my experience been otherwise, as a child growing up with harsh cold realities around him, without love and nurturing, with no access to an unfettered natural world, that child in me would have fathered a person only attuned to those dark realities. He uses the present tense to express his present happiness, his present manhood and the theme of. Perhaps the moments are not as pristine as when first as a child I knew them, yet still something wonderful is there to offer me a sense of awe and piety. In this poem, the poet uses present, past and future tenses. The momentary peace of inhaling with closed eyes the fragrance after the rain has, with each subsequent encounter, bound my days together in a chain of memories to this very day. The delight I knew as an infant upon seeing a butterfly flitting blossom to blossom is yet with me today. These words of Wordsworth ring true to me in my own experience of nature.
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