The Prelude

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  • context
    In his early life, Wordsworth held unorthodox religious and philosophical views.  Perhaps this poem could be a reference to pantheism, that God is all around us, throughout the whole universe. 
     
    A different interpretation could be that, as a romantic poet, Wordsworth was interpreting how the birth of industrialisation was damaging nature and, in this poem, Wordsworth wants to highlight the conflict between nature and the industrial project, and nature’s ‘fight back’ against a man who took nature for granted.