Wordsworth And Writing His Defense

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worth may have created the maternal characters in these three poems as a method of coping with his guilt for leaving his lover, Annette Vallon, and their newborn child. My basis for this can be seen in the female characters that he creates; they are all in some way abandoned by their male counterparts and left to deal with situations involving the children born to those particular men.
Furthermore, he uses nature to describe the characters, the surrounding society, and his passion for life and truth. This is also attributed to his subliminal struggle to work out personal issues through writing. Wordsworth lost his own mother around the age of eight and his own poetic development was deeply affected by it. Turning to The Prelude, we see that Wordsworth locates his first poetic experience as an infant at his mother's breast; likewise, this is his first connection between nature and motherhood. For the infant, "in one dear Presence, there exists. . . . the filial bond / of nature that connect[s] him with the world" (II.238-44). Once his mother ...