When he considers his fitness to be a poet, the speaker is pretty satisfied. At the same time, he isn't able to bring himself to sacrifice poetry for something more mundane and respectable. He wants to capture meaningful, important things in his work, but they don't always feel available to him. Indeed, the speaker deliberately sets goals that he thinks might help him grow as an artist. These explorations take place in the physical world, but they also symbolize and bring about the speaker's growth as a human being and as a poet. In search of experiences in nature-both because he enjoys them and because they sharpen his instincts as a writer-the child Wordsworth embarks on a series of explorations. The liveliness and intensity of nature seem to awaken a similar creative aliveness within the young poet, and he feels as if the streams and branches around him are both pointing him towards a certain poetic destiny, and reflecting that which is already inside of him. He is relieved and thrilled, even comparing the crowded city to a place of captivity. Since this work is autobiographical, we can guess that this area is England's idyllic Lake District, where Wordsworth grew up. This autobiographical epic poem begins with the speaker (a young Wordsworth) returning from a city to the rural area he calls home.
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