Nature itself is the chief speaker and gives a detailed description of the beauty and innocence of the little girl Lucy. The poem successfully depicts the educative impact of imparting perfection and purity that is extended through the effect of Nature on life and behaviour of a young girl Lucy. And also that an all pervading Divine Spirit is present in Nature and it has a will of its own. The poem upholds Wordsworth's beliefs that a spirit of joy runs through all objects and creatures of Nature. Palgrave titled it so partly because the theme of the poem is the influence of Nature on the build - up of human body and mind and partly because Wordsworth was greatly impressed by Rousseau, who regarded Nature as ultimate teacher. This poem successfully depicts the educative impact of imparting perfection and purity that is extended through the effect of Nature on the life and behaviour of a young girl Lucy. The poem suggests an underlying influence of Rousseau, the French philosopher, who believed that Nature has the power to educate the mind of man. It was given the title ‘The Education of Nature’, in Palgrave's ‘Golden Treasury’. This poem belongs to a group of poems called ‘Lucy Poems’. It was published in the second edition of ‘Lyrical Ballads’ in 1800. It was composed in 1799 in the Hartz forest during Wordsworth stay in Germany. This poem has another title, ‘Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower’. ‘The Education of Nature’ is a part of the collection, he wrote under the title ‘Poems of Imagination’.
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