The situational paradox follows the speaker as he stands before nature wanting to find it as admirable as people of a different time would, while the spiritual paradox is his search for that religious help while not actually inviting spiritual growth within oneself. While situational paradox plays an important role in shaping the speaker's mindset, spiritual paradox is what shows his inability to appreciate the world around him and that he too has been overwhelmed by his place in the world and not by the place of world. In