The thesis statement is one sentence that clearly communicates what the author plans to discuss in the passage. based on this information, which of the following sentences from the passage is its thesis statement?
a. "the hammer may be the oldest tool we have record of."
b. "not only is the hammer the oldest tool, but it is also the greatest."
c. "a quintessential symbol of labor, the hammer has come to represent hard work and embody the spirit of human industry."
d. "what makes the hammer so great is its simplicity, power, and usefulness."

first one is your answer

~coco

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