Wordsworth is talking about. Porphyro is surrendering to the desire, “the fire,” of his heart; meanwhile the people in Wordsworth’s poem “give their hearts away.” Nature is proved to be vulnerable to alienation and indifference by the people in Wordsworth’s poem; but, for Madeline is it overwhelming desire and longing by Porphyro. Instead of being cautious and holding back, Porphyo also takes a risk in following his burning heart, a quality admired by both Keats and Wordsworth.The people in Wordsworth’s poem, “The World is Too Much with Us,” are similar to the speaker in, “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” Both experience a particular part of nature, one, the “howling wind,” and the other, a field of daffodils. The people are not affected by the passions of nature, and the speaker does not immediately recognize the benefit of his experience. The speaker did not know of the “wealth the show” had brought him, when in actuality nature ended up filling his “heart with pleasures.” The people instead spend their time filling their lives with temporary material pleasures, when gazing at the countryside of “golden daffodils” can bring great joy to the soul at any time. ...
