How does Wordsworth use figurative language in the poem, The Tables Turned?

The poem features several examples of figurative language as a means of portraying nature in a positive manner. The most prominent example of this is the speaker’s personification of nature itself as a teacher. “She has a world of ready wealth,” the speaker says at the start of the fifth stanza, imbuing nature with a feminine spirit (17). Nature is also described as being able to breathe “spontaneous wisdom” and “truth” into the minds and hearts of its students (19, 20). The speaker also refers to the “sweet … lore” of nature, suggesting that the natural world is a sort of storyteller that possesses a wide range and depth of knowledge to share (25). Using such language to characterize nature as a hospitable and nurturing teacher adds to the overall message of the poem—that we ought to be learning from nature as opposed to books.