Title: Wordsworth’s Poetical Works Themes | GradeSaver
Headings: Wordsworth's Poetical Works Themes
Wordsworth's Poetical Works
by William Wordsworth
Wordsworth's Poetical Works Themes
Nature
Memory
Mortality
Humanity
Transcendence and Connectivity
Morality
Religion

Content: The little girl seems not to understand death throughout the poem, but in the end the reader learns that she may have a clearer understanding than the speaker. In "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" Wordsworth is comforted by the thought that he will live on after his death, because his sister Dorothy will remember him lovingly. Humanity
One of Wordsworth's greatest worries is the descent of humanity. As man moves further and further away from humanity he seems to be losing more and more of his soul. Often when Wordsworth is in nature he is saddened because he is forced to think about the people trapped in cities, unable or unwilling to commune with nature. In "London, 1802," for instance, Wordsworth makes a plea to the poet John Milton to return and teach humanity how to regain the morality and virtue it once had. Similarly, in "The world is too much with us" Wordsworth worries that the world is too full of people who have lost their connection to divinity, and more importantly, to nature: " Getting and spending we lay waste our powers, / Little we see in Nature that is ours." Transcendence and Connectivity
The idea of transcendence did not gain full speed until the Romantic Movement moved to America, but Wordsworth was certainly a fan of the idea long before then. " Transcendence" simply means "being without boundaries."