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Stylistic Analysis of Wordsworth’s Lines Written in Early Spring Abstract: in this paper, stylistic approaches are adopted to analyze Wordsworth’s nature poem Lines Written in Early Spring. The poem is analyzed in the aspects of rhythm, stress, syntax and semantics , which combined with the content to make clear how Wordsworth contrasts the harmony of nature with the disharmony of human society. Key Words: Wordsworth rhythm the stress syntax semantics Wordsworth is one of the best-known English poets in literature history who spent his life in the Lake District of Northern England. His great contribution to English Romanticism is the Lyrical Ballads published in 1798 and the preface of the second edition of it in 1800, which is regarded as the manifest of English Romanticism. When many poets still wrote about ancient heroes in grandiloquent style, Wordsworth focused on the nature, children, the poor, common people, and used ordinary words to express his personal feelings, which is of revolutionary significance. Wordsworth is famous for his nature poems. He believes that in nature, man’s essential feelings can find better soil and can be better cultivated and strengthened. And he also thinks that man should find beauty, power and knowledge from nature. That is why he chose the beautiful Lake District where to spend almost all his life. Nature is also the inspiration for most of his poems. So in his nature poem, we find vivid descriptions of mountains, rivers, flowers and birds etc. which are full of colors and imaginations. At the same time, his nature poems also reveal his spontaneous joys and thoughts in seeing and hearing the creatures of nature, often with boyish enthusiasm, and contrast his love of nature and his dissatisfaction with human society. All Wordsworth’s concepts of Romanticism and nature are well stated in the poem Lines Written in Early Spring. Here the poet sits passively in a grove, enjoying birds, trees, and flowers. These fair works of n