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When I have fears that I may cease to be Man and the Natural World Quotes

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Quote #4

[…] on the shore 

Of the wide world I stand alone (12-13)

Nature becomes one big mirror for our speaker's soul in the last lines of this poem: the wide world is the only thing huge enough to put our speaker's all-too-healthy ego into check.