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QUESTIONS ABOUT ENGLISH LITERATURE 1.Why is Wordsworth regarded as a “Worshipper of Nature?” Wordsworth is regarded as a“Worshipper of Nature” because he can penetrate to the core of things and give the readers the very life of nature．He wrote many poems like “The Sparrow’s Nest”, “To a Skylark”, “To a Butterfly to Rev”. He has genuine love for the natural beauty which can release him out of the solitude and sorrow when he is sad or empty-minded，as is expressed in “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”. Beyond the pleasures of the picturesque nests with their emphasis on the eye and the external aspects of nature，the poems lie a moral awareness as he is aware of his own sublime communion with all things．Nature has become an inspiring force of rapture and a power that reveals the working of the soul．To Wordsworth，nature acts as a substitute for imaginative and intellectual engagement with the development of embodied human beings in their diverse circumstances．It’s nature that gives him “strength and knowledge full of peace.” 2.What’s the significance and influence of Wordsworth’s poems on English literature? William Wordsworth is the leading figure of the English romantic poetry and his works is the focal poetic of the period. His poetry is a voice of searchingly comprehensive humanity and one that inspires his audience to see the world freshly, sympathetically and naturally. The most important contribution he has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature. 3.What does the sentence of Wordsworth“The child is father of the man”mean? The sentence is found in Wordsworth’s well-known poem “My Heart Leaps Up”. Maybe the idea is derived from Milton’s “Paradise Regained”: His childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.” Here the statement implies that the influences which contribute to former charact