For the AMAM presentations my group did Garden of the Princess by Claude Monet. This painting looked as if it was divided into three sections: a garden, the city and the sky. Aside from the sky, the painting was very rigid; it had sharp angles and was very structured and sectioned. There is also a fence separating the perfectly pruned garden from the city area, which was full of people as if to clearly separate nature and industry. At the time that Monet painted this painting city planning and industry were taking off and Paris was becoming an important metropolis. Even though Monet created a divide between humans/city and nature, he depicts such a controlled unnatural representation of nature that it serves as a production of this new growing industrialism. This notion contrasts the romantic notion of a wild and free nature. However the sky, unlike the rest of the painting is knotted in itself, wild and free. This is completely opposite to what Wordsworth writes, “So pure the sky, so quiet was the air! 
So like, so very like, was day to day!” Instead the painting has an uncontrolled sky and a seemingly controlled day-to-day life. It is almost as it the sky is coming at you when looking at the picture. The sky seems to warn against trying to control nature. Towards the end of the poem, Wordsworth writes: “Farewell, farewell the heart that lives alone, / Housed in a dream, at distance from the Kind! / Such happiness, wherever it be known, / Is to be pitied; for 'tis surely blind.” The word “kind” is like nature or humankind. Thus what is natural to humankind is to be in an uncontrolled true form of nature according to Wordsworth, and in my opinion according to the painting Monet feels the same way.