The Concept of Nature in Nutting by William Wordsworth

The apparent movement that I want to converse is how the nature appears in the rime Nutting from William Wordsworth. For me the poem deals with the development from puerility to adulthood and the changes, which are hold off in that time. In the pastime I will explain and justify the thesis, with figures in the text, that he personates the nature in this poem as a young, exquisite virgin, who takes him a step merely into adulthood and away from the immature innocence. The first symbol we ac do itledge in the title Nutting. A hazelnut is a symbol of spring, fertility and erotic and extroverted from that I will look for more symbols linked to sexual practice in the poem. It starts with a boy, go forth his home with a Brobdingnagian wallet (Line 6) for a travel into a far hostile wood (L.8). It seems like he is doing this for the first time because he is full of the eagerness of schoolboyish hope (L.4) and does not know what is expecting him. He is forcing (L.15) his w ay done the nature because the path he is following is described as unexplored and never utilize before and at the end, when he passed the beds of matted fern, and tangled thickets (L.15) he reaches a one making love nook (L.16), which is unvisited (L.17). This figurative and aesthetic language suggests not moreover a portray of an full come in the nature, plenteous in the woods, it also creates the picture of an untouched, virgin girl, which is maybe not so willing at the beginning because he require to force his way to that place he wants to be. This statement elicit be explained with the following lines in which the lyrical narrator describes a hazel rose with the linguistic communication Tall and erect, with tempting clusters hung, A virgin scene! (L.20-21). The gush is often used a symbol for the female genitals, oddly of their integrity and the tempting clusters hung lavatory be seen as other attributes of the female body. The boy is patently enjoying what he sees and Voluptuou...