The Nature of Wordsworth's Childhood

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…childhood. We drift through these memories, glimpsing the Wordsworth of his youth, and by the end of the poem are made to realize how in many ways the child in Wordsworth is still alive. Yet as a man, the means of expression for the joys he feels in experiencing nature have changed. We come to the end of the poem, and in doing so have experienced ourselves the product of this change: the poem itself.