... 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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... love that should not be. Through images of eyes and wealth veiled in double meanings, penned in the freeing and restricting form of a sonnet, we find that the subject's dual nature endows him with great power, yet the greatness of this power is what ultimately limits him. If eyes are the windows to the soul, then the subject's eyes reflect a woman ... attractiveness; beyond having womanly attributes, the subject is physically feminine. Moreover, it involves having strong influence, for he can divert men from their former gaze upon women. Although his dual nature endows him this advantag...

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