justify the titile of the poem the education of nature with evidence
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The poem is about a little girl called Lucy who tragically dies at the age of three. It's not entirely clear whether or not she was based on a real life person. In any case, Wordsworth uses the figure of Lucy as an opportunity for reflection. He also uses her to develop a common theme of his poetry: the almost pantheistic unity of human beings and nature. It isn't God who speaks, who takes Lucy back into His bosom at the hour of her death—it is Nature, who says:
. . . "A lovelier flower
On earth was never sown;
This child I to myself will take;
She shall be mine, and I will make
A lady of my own . . ."
Indeed, most of the poem constitutes a monologue by Nature. Lucy came from nature and to nature she shall return. In a sense, she will never really die; she will live on, her soul transfigured, at one with the stars and the clouds and the mountain springs. And, as the narrator surveys the heath, his heart finds peace and rest. In returning to nature Lucy has given the narrator a profound sense of tranquility. And though no longer physically alive, she lives on in both the landscape and the memories it continues to inspire.