The philosophy of the Romantic poets included the idea that children maintained a complete appreciation, wonder and connection with nature that involved both "seeing » and to “feel” the surrounding beauty. them. When a child comes into the world and before beginning his journey through life, he possesses an innocence, and one might even say an ignorance, towards the world which allows him to see only the glory and splendor of life. nature that surrounds it. As Williamworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge show, many romantics believed that one loses all appreciation, whether of "seeing" or "feeling" the magnificence of nature, as one becomes an adult; however, only one of the senses allows an individual to maintain a connection with nature and find lasting, lasting strength. In line 9, the speaker states, "[t]he things that I have seen I can see no more," referring to the "glory and freshness of a dream," which in an age of his childhood, possessed an aesthetic beauty that only “celestial light” could match (NAEL, D 337). Throughout the poem, the speaker describes wondrous and breathtaking aspects of nature, but claims that awe has "disappeared" because of life's trials and difficult experiences :