Nature is often a focal point for the works of many authors, whether expressed through lyrics, short stories, or poems. Authors are provided with a cornucopia of images and descriptions of nature's splendor that they can reproduce through words. It is for this reason that more often than not a reader is faced with multiple approaches and descriptions of the way nature is represented. Some authors tend to look at nature from a deeper and more personal observation as in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth, while other authors tend to focus on a more religious beauty within nature as shown in “Pied Beauty” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. suggesting to the reader that while for everyone there is always a beauty to be found in nature and the beauty of nature can be uplifting to the human spirit on both a visual and spiritual level. Wordsworth and Hopkins both present the reader with a poem that conveys the theme of nature. Nature in its variety, from something simple like streaked or multicolored skies, long fields and valleys, to more complex things like animals, are all gifts we take for granted. Some never realize the truth of what they are missing by staying indoors by fixating on the loneliness and emptiness of their lives and not on the beauty that currently surrounds them. Others tend to relate more to the fact that these lovely gifts come from God and should be praised for how His gifts have elevated our human spirit. Each writer provides us with their own ideals on how to find and appreciate nature's true gifts. In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” William Wordsworth realizes his ideal of nature by using personification, alliteration, and simile within his poetry to convey to the reader how the beauty of nature uplifts his spirit and distances him from the dull daily routine . Wordsworth relates in solidarity to that of a cloud wandering alone: ​​“I have wandered lonely as a cloud” (line 1). Comparing the cloud and himself to that of a lonely, depressed human being in isolation, the author simultaneously compares the daffodils he encounters as he "floats high above valleys and hills" (line 2) to those of a crowd of people . dance (lines 3-6 and again in 12). Watching and admiring the dancing daffodils as it floats connecting them to various beauties of