Wordsworth's Mysticism

Aubrey be very speaks of Wordsworth as a mystic. Indeed, his mysticism is such fundamental and pervading element in his poems that it must be considered very carefully. Wordsworth believes that God pervades the entire Universe-both animate. It is in the though of God that the Universe exists, and its life is an God's though. Not only that-the life in very flower, bud,insect, and the mossy stone on the hillside is a part of the Divine life. As such, Nature (and every object in it) has a life of its own. And it is even conscious of it. That is why Wordsworth, in all all his moods of inspired ecstasy or calm contemplation, is thrilled though and through with the sense of some inscrutable presence in Nature to which the soul of man is linked by some mysterious bond of connection:

                 I have felt 
              A presence that disturbs me with the joy
             Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime 
            Of something far more deeply interfused, 
           Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns
          And the round ocean and the living air,
         And the blue sky, and in the mind of man,
       A motion and a spirit, that impels 
       All thinking, all objects of all thought,
       And rolls through all things....