William Wordsworth - Lines

        After learning about his past and his history with Annette Vallon, one can come to the conclusion that perhaps this poem is not about nature, but use nature as a symbolism of his time spent with Vallon when he traveled through France. When you first read "Lines", you are given a very detailed description of a picturesque setting. In lines 22 - 29, he talks about how even though it has been a long time since he has come across this beauty and this sense of love. "Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye:" This line is talking about how it has been years since he was seen her and that it's possibly been so long that maybe he is starting to forget what she looks like. "But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even in my purer mind," Even though he his in a landscape that is completely different from when they were together, in moments when he is at his weakest the feelings they once shared come again and he feels alive.
       He even goes as far to saying that these memories often make him reflect on the past and the future. "For future years, And so I dare to hope, Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, Wherever nature led: more like  man." He has hope for what the future brings to not only himself but to Vallon as well. He realizes that they have both changed over time. He also realizes that he is not the same as he once was. He is not the same young man who thought he knew everything he needed to know. Back then, he was reckless, young and free and unafraid of the world. Now, however he is a man fully grown and must now think differently.