A Comparison of William Wordsworth's Ode and Lines Written in Early Spring
...e world through the eyes of a child. The world is painted in sunshine and happiness with troubles being pushed away by the use of strong, youthful imagination. Fitting with this idea, Wordsworth’s child displays a creative outlook on death that helps her to cope with a terrible aspect of the world. Rather than viewing death as an ending, she sees it as a transition. The child does not feel her lost brother and sister now exist in a world separate from her own, but, rather, that they still exist in her world, simply in an alternate form. Through the use of her imagination, this small girl is able to establish an existence for her brother and sister even after death. In Blake’s The Songs of Experience, however, the reader learns that this childish power of imagination is not often retained in adulthood. When a person experiences the world as an adult, the picture is not so grand. Although happiness does exist, it is often hidden by clouds of pain and hardship, painting a view of the world that is often more true to life, but also one that is much more bleak. This idea is clearly displayed through the words of Wordsworth’s narrator. As an adult, the narrator is unable to understand the child’s view that she has seven siblings, knowing that two are deceased. In the narrato...