in "my heart leaps up when I behold" Wordsworth says, "the child is the father of the man" this is often interpreted to mean that our childhood experiences influence the adults that we become. explain how this theme as a parent and "lines composed a few miles above tintern Abby" give examples from the text to support your answer.

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He feels pleasure at being himself apart from the way he was five years ago, saying, that time has passed. He seems almost melancholy about the change. Hope this helped!!!! Have a wonderful DAY!!!!
Fonsor

This two poems share a common sence of rememberance and melancholy for the past. They both share an important implied filosophical idea and it is, that the past affects and helps define the present. How he actions of the past can define your pesonality and how you handle situations in the present is considered.

For being a parent it is helpful to try to understand the position your kid is in, for this is key to remember how you felt when you were a kid in similar situations.

Quotes that show these ideas in the texts:

"So was it when my life began;

So is it now I am a man."

My heart leaps up when I behold

“My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch  / The language of my former heart, and read  / My former pleasures in the shooting lights  / Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while  / May I behold in thee what I was once…”

lines composed a few miles above tintern Abby