Firstly, William Wordsworth reaches back into ancient Greece for their Gods who symbolizes nature and strength. In line 13&14 (“Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.”) he uses reference to Greek God Proteus and Triton, the God of sea and God of Nature. In my opinion, Wordsworth selected Gods as the protector to the world to symbolize rebirth. Since he talked about Proteus as the sea of God, I imagine that the water has been a symbol of new beginnings and 1when the sea of God rise from their watery depth they will correct the excesses of humanity, a rebirth will have taken place. That line made me imagine how people can rebirth. Wordsworth also uses the Phrase, “Great God! I’d rather be a Pagan …show more content…
People take advantage of mother nature and life as well. "Late and soon" is a strange phrase. It could mean "sooner or later," or it could mean we've done this recently or in the past ("late") and will do it in the future as well ("soon"). Wordsworth is describing how we "lay waste our powers" both in getting and in spending two words that are opposites to each other describing the activities of business and how we do this both early in our lives (that is, soon) and when we are old (that is, late) in other words, we waste our whole lives with all of our busy but soul-killing labor and work and commerce, and pay no attention to the wonders of the natural world around us. We are never too late if we start accepting early. 2The second line opens with a complaint, saying that the world is out of whack and that people are destroying themselves with consumerism ("getting and spending"). Humanity has become self absorbed and can no longer think clearly; they don’t appreciate what they have now. It’s better to cherish the things that are important to you because sooner or later you’ll regret not holding to