... than a deep feeling of like; rather, it is an overwhelming force that mesmerizes every part of you, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Wordsworth found "love- in many things including: relationships and self-awareness, however, after reading Lyrical Ballads, I found that he appeared to be particularly interested in that of nature and maternal passion, especially for mothers who have been abandoned. ... Perhaps this theme recurs because he has taken nature to act as his surrogate mother. Wordsworth's gendered poetics clearly manifests itself in his poems The Idiot ... mental and p...

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