... live on for our speaker. Line 14: When the soldier dies he will go to an "English heaven." Sweet. We bet they serve the best fish n' chips. Nature Imagery SYMBOL ANALYSIS There's a lot of nature in this poem. Fields, dust, flowers, rivers, suns-it's all over the place. The relationship between the speaker and the natural world is very close, even harmonious ... aware." England can't really do these things, so this is a case of personification (the attribution of human qualities to non-human things). Dust is a metaphor for the speaker's relationship to nature and for the fact that he may...

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... flowers. With this portion of the sonnet, Wordsworth is continuing his disgust with humanity and our inability to praise even the simplest forms of nature such as the relationship between the moon and the sea tides. He personifies flowers to be sleeping due to our inability to see them ... tune"" (8). As mentioned previously, Wordsworth claims that we are no long vulnerable to the phenomenon of nature since we have desensitized ourselves thanks to the industrialization of our hearts. As in most Italian sonnets, the beginning of the sestet changes the direction of the poem. The capitalizat...

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