The philosophy of the Romantic poets included the idea that children maintained a complete appreciation, awe-filled wonder, and a connection with nature that implied both " see" and "feel" the beauty surrounding them. When a child comes into the world and before he begins his journey in life, he possesses an innocence, and one might even say, an ignorance, about the world that allows him to see only the glory and splendor of the nature that surrounds him. surrounds. As exemplified by Williamworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, many Romantics believed that one loses complete appreciation, both in "seeing" and "feeling" the magnificence of nature, as one matures and becomes an adult; however, only one of the senses allows an individual to maintain a connection with nature and find lasting, sustaining strength. In line 9, the speaker states, "[t]he things I have seen I can see no more now," referring to the "glory and freshness of a dream," which once in his childhood possessed an aesthetic beauty that only the “heavenly light” equaled (NAEL, D 337). Throughout the poem, the speaker describes beautiful and breathtaking aspects of nature, but states that awe has "passed" through life's hardships and difficult experiences: And if the splendor that once was so