Nature is undeniably beautiful. There is something so angelic about the way it surrounds us everywhere we go. Nature is essential to life. "The Calypso Borealis," an essay by John Muir, and William Wordsworth's poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," both describe their perspectives and mood towards nature. Nature highly impacts both these authors according to their writings. Nature gives them a sense of hopefulness and encouragement when they are burdened with problems.
Both authors greatly admire nature in so many ways. Muir and Wordsworth describe how when they are feeling down, nature picks them up. Muir directly states an experience where he begins to loose faith: “But when the sun was getting low and everything seemed most bewildering and discouraging, I found beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream”. This is a perfect example of how fast his
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He describes the daffodils as never ending as he compares them to the stars in the Milky Way: “Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay”. This views begins to completely satisfy all his needs in this moment, “A poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company: I gazed—and gazed—but little thought what wealth the show to me had brought”. Wordsworth then explains how when he is feeling lonesome, the vision he keeps of this nature uplifts his negative moods. The thought of the daffodils helps to keep him at peace and clear his mind.
To conclude, Muir and Wordsworth both use nature as a form a relief when they are feeling down. The Calypso inspired Muir to not give up and to stay positive. While for Wordsworth the daffodils help him remain happy and also positive. Without these forms of nature these writers may not have found another way to help with their negative feelings. It’s their natural stress