Which of the following themes is best shown by this passage from My Antonia?
I thought the attitude of the town people toward these girls very stupid. If I told my schoolmates that Lena
Lingard's grandfather was a clergyman, and much respected in Norway, they looked at me blankly. What did it
matter? All foreigners were ignorant people who couldn't speak English. There was not a man in Black Hawk who
had the intelligence or cultivation, much less the personal distinction, of Antonia's father. Yet people saw no
difference between her and the three Marys; they were all Bohemians, all "hired girls."
People who live in towns are stupid.
All immigrants who work as servants are the same.
People who don't speak English are ignorant.
The dignity and capability of immigrants is often unrecognized.
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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