As a typical Romantic, Wordsworth distinguishes rural from urban places, and has the Romantic bias that a rural place is “good,” while an urban place is “bad” for life, although the City of London often lured as well as repelled him and therefore his attitude towards the metropolis was ambivalent. Wordsworth’s distinction of rural from urban places is parallel to his distinction of nature form society, and his preference of rural places is related to his Romantic worship of nature. For him, the place where nature prevails is the place of true feelings and great love, and the place dominated by society is the place where shallow feelings and evil influences are found. Therefore, Wordsworth envisions a certain correspondence between the outer great nature and or inner human nature. Yet, besides the common sense of extolling rural and natural places, Wordsworth also has his own particular sense of place, and that is embedded in what he calls “spots of time.” For him, what are stored in one’s mind or memory are “spots of time.” The “spots” can be bright or dark. But they all serve as a beneficent influence, they concur with our deepest feelings, and they are scattered everywhere in our lifetime. They may function well because of some genius loci (“spirit of place”) or owing to some psycho-analytical replacement of inner space for outer space. Anyway, they are tied up with Wordsworth’s poetics, in which the poet at first employs his “primary imagination” to form “spots of time” in memory by experiencing the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” in rural or urban places, and finally the poet employs his “secondary imagination” to recall the “spots of time” from memory by experiencing the “emotion recollected in tranquility” so that successful composition of poetry can begin. But Wordsworth’s poetics also echoes his common Romantic sense of place: for him, rural or natural places are the suitable places for the poet’s writing career.