Themes in "The Thorn"

There are many themes that can be found in William Wordsworth's "The Thorn." The poem is about a woman that spends almost all of her time weeping by a thorn because she lost her child. She was also in love with a man names Stephen, but he left her after she got pregnant. It says in the poem that no one knows how she lost her baby, but most people think she killed it. I don't believe that she killed her baby, because through all of her weeping, it shows how much she loved her baby. The poem takes us through stages of Martha's life to show us back when she was happy. The happiest time in the poem was when she was with Stephen. It talked about the love she had for him, but after she left all the happiness left too. After looking in depth at this poem, a deeper meaning comes out. Since Wordsworth was a romantic poet, we know that nature had a big part in this poem too. Martha sat next to this weeping, old, ugly thorn when she could have moved a couple feet and been in a beautiful, mossy hill. I think that the mossy hill was so beautiful to Martha because that is where her baby was burried. Another theme that this poem could have is being abandoned. Martha was in love with a man that she thought she would be with forever, but after she got pregnant he left and Martha was alone. It says in the poem that many people thought she killed her baby because she was so sad that Stephen left, and that could be possible, but if Martha was the one that killed the baby I don't think that she would feel the guilt that she felt. I think Wordsworth made the thorn so old and ugly to represent Martha's sadness. And he made the hill of moss so beautiful to represent her baby. This is how Wordsworth incorporated nature into this poem. In the end of the poem it says those who go up to the hill can hear the cries of Martha in the breeze. This is another way he put nature into the poem. All the characters in the poem were represented by nature somehow.