The question that I want to discuss is how the nature appears in the poem "Nutting" from William Wordsworth. For me the poem deals with the development from childhood to adulthood and the changes, which are appearing in that time. In the following I will explain and justify the thesis, with symbols in the text, that he personates the nature in this poem as a young, beautiful virgin, who takes him a step further into adulthood and away from the childish innocence. The first symbol we find in the title “Nutting." A hazelnut is a symbol of spring, fertility and erotic and outgoing from that I will look for more symbols linked to sexuality in the poem. It starts with a boy, leaving his home "with a huge wallet" (Line 6) for a journey into "a far distant wood" (L.8). It seems like he is doing this for the first time because he is full of ‘the eagerness of boyish hope’ (L.4) and does not know what is expecting him. He is ‘forcing’ (L.15) his way through the nature because the path he is following is described as unexplored and never used before and at the end, when he passed the ‘beds of matted fern, and tangled thickets’ (L.15) he reaches a ‘one dear nook’ (L.16), which is ‘unvisited’ (L.17). This figurative and sensuous language suggests not only a picture of an untouched place in the nature, deep in the woods, it also creates the picture of an untouched, virgin girl, which is maybe not so willing at the beginning because he needs to ‘force’ his way to that place he wants to be. This statement can be explained with the following lines in which the lyrical narrator describes a hazel rose with the words ‘Tall and erect, with tempting clusters hung, A virgin scene!’ (L.20-21). The flower is often used a symbol for the female genitals, particularly of their integrity and the ‘tempting clusters hung’ can be seen as other attributes of the female body. The boy is obviously enjoying what he sees and ‘Voluptuou