I would first just like to say that I love how simply Wordsworth is able to state things and yet still say something profound. The poem that really drew my attention was "Expostulation and Reply". His friend Matthew is of the mind that simply by sitting on a stone, Wordsworth is wasting his time away. Where are the books, books that enlighten us, books that without which we would be left in a sort of darkeness...Matthew seems to see our purpose on earth to be to learn from those that came before us, and, making assumptions, to make progress, to constantly be learning and progressing as humans. To him, this is the meaning of enlightenment...

Wordsworth, on the other hand, is simply sitting on a rock, "when life was sweet I knew not why". He states that our eyes always see, we cannot stop ourselves from hearing, and that our bodies are always feeling, whether we fight against these feelings or not. Our body is always alive and aware, and such things are beyond our control and choice. Therefore (I'm not really sure this is the conclusion Wordsworth came to exactly, but it's kind of what I understood and found meaningful from what he said...), there are these other powers that are constantly impressing themselves upon our minds , but it is important that we are passive and allow them to feed us. Nothing will come of itself, and so it is pointless to seek...yet we still seek. There is nothing wrong with dreaming one's time away, one may learn more from it than from reading the words of others, having our own realizations and experiences.