B. Wordsworth
...nd ants. Bees and ants are thought of as workers, going about their day without stopping or straying from their tasks. They are the non-poets. When B. Wordsworth asked the boy if he liked to watch bees and ants the boy replied, “I ain’t have the time.” Like the bees and ants many people are non-poets or do not take the time to see the poetry that makes up life. B. Wordsworth enjoyed watching them and saw their beauty and was fascinated with them. B. Wordsworth’s lesson was best represented through the symbolism of the mangos. B. Wordsworth had created a paradise garden regardless of the cement that was surrounding it. He had made it beautiful through the way he saw it. When B. Wordsworth died his garden died along with him and was covered in the same cement tomb that surrounded the city, showing how the poet’s eye creates the beauty of the poetry of the world. The mangos that the boy ate are a symbol of how B. Wordsworth wanted the boy to live. Too not only eat the mangos, but to plunge himself into them, letting the juice drip down his arms and on to his face, soaking him and staining him, leaving a mark. Although the boy was punished later, B. Wordsworth wanted him to enjoy the mangos and life without being afraid of the consequences that might follow. B. Wordsworth showed the boy the world of poetry and how to see life in the moment and for the depth it holds. Maturity and a ne...