Wordsworth's Poems

Wordsworth uses his poems as a way of promoting his seemingly eternal love for the beauty of Nature, which starkly contrasts to the view of Charlotte Smith in her sonnets. While Wordsworth praises the Celandine and other flowers and discusses their contributions to the happiness of men (or at least a few of them), including himself, Smith focuses on Nature's inability to distract her from the reality and her life in the human world. This brings up another point: Wordsworth's pieces bring out more of a bond between humans and Nature, while Smith displays a separation between the two. "To the Small Celandine" explains how the beauty of flowers and Nature integrate themselves into human life and their positive influence on them. On the other hand, Smith's Sonnet LXXVII describes the bliss of enjoying the simplicity of nature, but reminds the reader that it is only temporary at the end of the poem and that reality will soon invade one's life, yet again.