This poem is in the first edition of the Lyrical Ballads, which focused on the experience and plight of the ordinary man
Wordsworth is exploring how man has turned on himself through the industrial revolution, choosing industry over nature
when was the industrial revolution?
1760
when was the poem written?
1798
what was the poem included in?
lyrical ballads
what philosopher does this link to?
philosopher Rousseau
what does philosopher Rousseau think?
believed that “man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.” His thinking was that society erases our purity, and that man can only be good in a natural state.
