William Wordsworth

After reading the biography of William Wordsworth you can see his background in some of his poems. Wordsworth's mother died when he was eight years old and then his father died when he was thirteen years old. Then once his father died he was not able to recieve his inheritance for a while. Wordsworth basically grew up with a childhood that would be difficult for most current day teenagers to deal with or understand. In today's society people live to be so much older and children especially are not expected to do as much, nor are they as mature as children would have been in the early 1800's.
The first poem where I really feel like you see Wordsworths childhood experiences being explained is "We are Seven". In the first paragraph it asks the question "what should it know of death?" He is talking about a child, probably a young child, because in the first sentence he says "A simple child" and he is pointing out that a young child could not possibly know anything about death. However, as the poem progresses we realize this child does know quite a bit about death, just like Wordsworth would have known about death at his age. As the poem progresses and he begins talking with the eight year old little girl we are able to see her perspective on the death of her siblings. He asks "Sisters and brothers, little maid, How many may you be?" and she responds "seven in all". So at this point she admits to him she has seven brother and sisters in total. Then she goes on to say "two of us in the church-yard lie, my sister and my brother". One thing about the girl is that she does not accept them as dead, just that their bodies are in the ground under a tree at the church yard. She like any child was having a hard time dealing with the death of her siblings. She even said "And often after sunset, Sir, When it is light and fair, I take my little porringer, And eat my supper there." At night she would go eat dinner with them as if they were still alive because in her head they were alive. She would not have it any other way.
Possibly this is what Wordsworth went through when his mother and father died. Being a young child at age 13 with both parents dead maybe he still did not accept their death.
Wordsworth also wrote alot of poems about nature. One of his poems he wrote "The world is too much with us" expressed how he felt about the human race on Earth. He says "For this, for everything, we are out of tune; it moves us not. Great God!" He seems to be upset that the beauty of nature is not appreciated by more people. He also says "Little we see in nature that is ours" He is troubled by the fact people are not seeing beauty in nature and because of that he seems to be saying that he is not finding beauty in nature.
Also, in the poem "It is a beauteous Evening" he is showing his love for nature to his daugther Caroline. He has a passion for the sea. He says "The gentleness of heaven is on the Sea: Listen! the mighty being is awake And doth with eternal motion make a sound like thunder-everlasting" He wants his daughter to hear the sea and appreciate it for the beauty in which he appreciates it. He points out in that quote that the sea is forever living. He worshiped nature and he was teaching his daughter in this poem that nature is forever living and one should appreciate it.