Which sentence uses vivid language to establish a peaceful tone?
a. silently moving his head from left to right and right to left, the owl scanned the barn floor for mice.
b. william's best friend, alan, arrived just in time to see the horse trainer beginning to work with the feisty filly.
c. aimee watched the newborn kittens nestle into perfectly round balls against their mother's fur and begin to purr.
d. pinecones plopped on the forest floor as squirrels scurried from tree to tree, gathering nuts before winter arrived.

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human