Read paragraph 5 below. ed)
As the two boys walked sorrowfully along, they made a new pact to stand by each other and be
brothers and never separate till death relieved them of their troubles. Then they began to lay their
plans. Joe was for being a hermit, and living on crusts in a remote cave, and dying, some time, of
cold and want and grief, but after listening to Tom, he conceded that there were some obvious
advantages about a life of crime, and so he consented to be a pirate.
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How is Joe's view of his future different from Tom's?
Joe wants to live in a comfortable home.
Joe wants to live a joyful life with others.
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O Joe wants to live with his family again.
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O Joe wants to live in poverty in a cave.

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

it would be nice to see the passage but with my understanding of the word oxymoron they speaker is saying that love is contradictory.