Topic > Analysis of the Ruined Cottage - 714

(510-512) As we look at line 511, "The forms of things with an unworthy eye", Wordsworth symbolized this line of poetry by seeing each individual equally. The spirit of democracy in this poem is not to see people as a higher or lower power; it is seeing others as equal in power to the other individual. A famous poet, Samuel Coleridge, wrote the poem “Frost at Midnight”. Coleridge wrote the poem to describe how he wanted a better life for his son than the one he had as a young boy. He illustrated that during his childhood he lived in a lonely town, growing up alone, and described that he wanted his son to live through nature, which they believed was connected to God. Coleridge did not want his son to live a sad and gloomy life ; he wanted her to have happiness. Which represent in their mass both lakes and shores and mountain cliffs; thus you will see and hear the beautiful forms and intelligible sounds of that eternal language, which is yours