Address to a Child

In Dorthy Wordsworth poem "Address to a Child," there something that is interesting in the way that she describes the wind. There is great detail in the discription of it. It almost feels like you are traveling over the landscape on the wind as you read it. I think that there maybe something more that can be taken from this work. I believe that she maybe talking about how things in her society were changing during this time. Many people where moving to the cities from the country. Industrialization was causing the landscape of the country to change. Railroads where moving through the land, and cities were expanding at an unpresidented pace. I want to talke about the last two lines of the poem which state "Let him seek his own home wherever it be Here's a coz warm house for Edward and me (292)." I think that this may have been her way of saying that even though everything is changing, the change will not affect her or the way that she thinks. I believe that in describing the way that the wind changes the landscape is representative of industrialization. Her refusal to open the door for wind is her refusal to accept the changes that were going on around her so she will never be accepting of what she will view as something unacceptable.