Wordsworth visualized scenes while he was away, a way to feel a spiritual connection until he was able to return. Wordsworth states, “As a landscape to a blind man's eye: but I had to choose, in solitary rooms and amidst the din of towns and cities” (Wordsworth 25-27). Wordsworth gives a sense of conformity and loneliness while in the towns and cities. That he had his memories of when he was younger to keep him hopeful of returning to nature and all the memories he had grasped the memories of. As today's society focuses solely on what it can profit from cities, Wordsworth understood the true meaning of memories. Memories today are mostly captured through social media and in return are taken for granted. Wordsworth felt a nostalgic bliss as he recalled his memories and knew that in the future he could look back on that day and feel the same feeling again. Social media today is destroying our memories and what we can relive in our minds as memories. We can know that when things are posted on social media they will be liked and shared. However, there are not many people in today's society who will remember the true essence of what nature has given
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