"One impulse from a vernal wood/ May teach you more of man...." - Explain what Wordsworth wants to convey here in his poem The Tables Turned.
Ans. - The above extract from The Tables Turned is one of the most famous in Wordsworths poetry. The impulses of Nature, such as rain, wind and woods will teach men a better practical philosophy than all the text books on ethics that ever were written, or all the dicta uttered by saints and sages. The poet believes that if we go to Nature in the right mood and submit ourselves to her kind and favourable influences we will again by communion with her more moral energy and spiritual insight than we can ever get from all the philosophies of the various schools, and that through such energy and insight we will obtain a clearer vision of good and evil than mere knowledge would ever afford. Thus, Nature is capable of giving us all the moral and spiritual teaching incorporated in books or preached by the philosophers or sages. The spirit of Nature is moral and we can learn from her more of man, than we can learn philosophic treaties. Thus, Nature imparts moral education to her devotee and admirer. This is what Wordsworth wants to convey about the potentialities of Nature for the betterment of mans mental and spiritual make-up.
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