His perfect faith in the imagination and the power of the poetic image have given him back his hopes that at some time, man will shake off his ignoble tendencies and true liberty will be attained. The passage of Wordsworth s thought processes show similarity to the levels of knowledge and the trials faced by the characters of Schikaneder s libretto The Magic Flute . Many of the Enlightenment ideals are represented in Wordsworth s beliefs perhaps the Romantics were striving for the same end as the Enlightenment artists, simply with a different focus and path. The wisdom that Sarastro represents is the love of man. Although these ideas seem simple and overly optimistic to the jaded people of today, Wordsworth s words strike a familiar chord in our imaginations.
Reality is in our minds.
Man flees into the cradle of his imagination when crisis strikes. His memories are the one thing that holds true no matter what happens to culture or nature.