I have chosen to explore paragraphs 8, 9 and 11 to interpret what Wordsworth might have meant by this quote. The use of 'fostered' creates the impression of a parent or guardian, and with such a high regard for nature I wonder whether this quote is aimed at her and her so called actions that only Wordsworth seems to feel and encounter. Episode 8 begins with the lines; he seems at one with where he used to live in …
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…beautiful surroundings and the relationship he has with nature. Nature in a way acts like a parent in Wordsworth's mind 'Fostered alike by beauty and by fear', where beauty seems to refer to nature and fear in the change and punishment because he's done wrong. Wordsworth can appreciate and relate to the beauty of nature and her changes having grown up with her when very young in Cockermouth and still in it's presence in Hawkshead.