Wordsworth begins the poem with an simple image. A useful technique to introduce the physical setting of the poem.

These lines step away from the metaphors and visuals and go deeper into the man’s mind and consciousness. For the man to “settle” could once again mean the man’s death. There is a subtle hint here that the man is accepting death so painlessly because he knows that death is nothing more than a natural part of life, and in time his body will be recycled back into the earth so he can be a part of something which he loves so much. The middle two lines here suggest that the man is so content and quiet that he seems to be “not all there,” but in fact his patients and acceptance are the result of years living among the world and developing a relationship with nature. This relates to his “relationship” with the birds, figuratively speaking of course, and the connection between Wordsworth’s inner self and that of the man in the poem. The last four lines of the poem prove the man’s reliance on nature for it is so stated:

With thought.--

His gait, is one expression: every limb,

At the end of Wordsworth’s poem Animal Tranquility and Decay he resolves it by eventually stating the reason for the man’s attitude towards nature. The man’ s relationship with it allows him to live a peaceful life and come into contact with it causing no disturbances or harming it. Just like he passed by the birds and they didn’t even acknowledge him. Perhaps because he blended in so well that he was just a part of nature. In Animal Tranquility and Decay Wordsworth uses many different structural styles as well as techniques like enjambment and off time rhythmic patterns. Upon writing this poem he sheds new light on the whole ideas of humans living within nature instead of off of nature, and contentness even in old age and death as well as acceptance in that all things eventually decay. I am sure that William Wordsworth would agree with me when say that a much greater happiness could be found in the natural world outside than could

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