Nature – In the hands of Wordsworth

2014

Among the Romantic poets William Wordsworth has a unique appellation as the poet of nature. A large bulk of his poetry centres round the theme of nature, its preservation, its rehabilitation and its motherly affection for all human beings. According to Wordsworth nature is a great universal resort for peace and solitude. If Coleridge saw nature as an auditorium of supernatural things, if Shelley saw nature as a preserver and destroyer, if Keats found a storehouse of sensuous beauty in nature, Wordsworth found nature to be a temple where he worships his deity. As De Quincey observes, "Wordsworth had passion for Nature fixed in his blood". In Tintern Abbey his philosophy of nature is summarized: '…..Well pleased to recognize www.researchscholar.co.in Impact Factor 0.793 (IIFS)

Frost, 2019

This research aims to investigate the different meanings for the term-nature‖. Moreover, it seeks to identify the major similarities and differences in the use of nature in the poetry of William Wordsworth and Robert Frost. Since this research is theoretical in nature, it depends primarily on reviewing already published works on the topic. The researchers consulted a significant number of published references on the topic as well as specialized literary dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and the internet. The research concludes that the term-nature‖ has not always had the same meaning or carries the same level of significance.

2018

This paper is inspired by a brief yet inspiring discussion with a senior academician who gave me a fresh insight into poetry. As I lamented about the freshness and sublimity of nature poetry of romantic poets especially Wordsworth and wondered how he managed such fertility of imagination and painted the pictures of benign nature, she encouraged me to look at contemporary writers like Ted Hughes who are equally capable to creating picture images in our mind while talking about the power of nature. That was a shift in my perspective towards nature poetry written by contemporary poets. This chance meeting challenged me to compare and analyze how the poets of these two genres approach nature. This paper envisages to explore the world of poetry of both the poets with special reference to nature.

US-China Foreign Language, USA & Sino-US English Teaching, USA ISSN: 15398080 & 15398072 David Publishing Company, 9460, Telstar Ave Suits, El Monte, CA 91731, USA., 2012

From time immemorial down to the present decade, poets, dramatists and fictionists have portrayed Nature in different ways in their works.Critics, so far, have pointed out the mystic, didactic and philosophical aspects of Wordsworth’s nature poetry.In the backdrop of global deforestation and environmental degradation, traditional approaches to the evaluation of Wordsworth’s nature poetry have lost charms and appeals to both the readers and the environmentalists. So, new approaches to the judgment of his poetry are a demand of the day. Keeping this demand in view, this article aims at delving deep into Wordsworth’s selected nature poems from eco-scientific point of view. Eco-scientific approach, sadly missed in the analysis of his poetry, may pave the way for opening up a new trend for the new generation of readers and critics. Keywords: ecocriticism, environment, nature, destruction, scientific, preserve, deforestation

Nature has often been one of the prominent themes in literature. It has been the topic of celebration by the Romantics to have a way out from the hectic business of city life. On the other hand, the adaptation of the same subject has also been observed by the Modern poets to put emphasis on the realities and responsibilities of human existence. This paper aims at making a comparative study in the presentation of “Nature” by William Wordsworth, an English Romantic and Robert Frost, a Modern American.

With the publication of Lawrence Buell's The Environmental Imagination (1995) and Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm's joint collection, The Ecocriticism Reader (1996), Ecocriticism emerged in the 1990s and the critics changed their angles of vision and examined the works of art by focusing on the relationship between man and Nature. Hence, Romantic poetry, in general, and William Wordsworth, in particular, became the key icons of ecocritical studies. Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who has been considered as a forerunner of English Romanticism. His views towards Nature and man's treatment of Nature have supported his position as an important icon of ecocritical studies. His fame lies in the general belief that he has been viewed as a Nature poet who viewed Nature superior to humans. In other words, his views about Nature and his poems seek to heal the long-forgotten wounds of Nature in the hope of reaching unification between man and Nature. Therefore, this study is an attempt to focus on Wordsworth's selected poems in the light of Ecocriticism in order to shed light on the poet's cautious views about the interdependence of man and Nature and purge Wordsworth of the unjust labels tagged to him as a self-centered poet. Accordingly, this research takes into account the importance of the reciprocal relationship between man and Nature as the major constituents of a vast ecosystem and helps the readers grow ecologically and achieve tranquility in an era suffocated by technological pollution.

Oeconomia Copernicana , 2022

William Wordsworth, English Romanticist and Robert Frost, American National Poet celebrate nature as their subject matter. The paper tries to compare the ideas of nature and its philosophy in both poets writing. Though there are obvious similarities between the two poets' takes on the subject, their perspectives on Nature couldn't be more different. Wordsworth is without a peer when it comes to nature poets. He holds a high reverence for the natural world and considers himself a priest or devotee. He has developed an entire philosophical system, a fresh perspective on the natural world. However, Frost is not into nature for its own sake. Unlike Wordsworth, he does not perceive nature as a source of strength, happiness, or moral well-being. Nature provides the same inspiration for both writers but in very different forms. Frost keeps his distance as an artist while Wordsworth is invested in the themes of his poems. Frost appears uncomplicated but is quite complicated compared to Wordsworth. Frost is a realist, an observer of the world, and an opponent of romance. On the other hand, Wordsworth is a transcendentalist, romantic, and mystic. Compared to Wordsworth, whose poetry is equally delightful at its beginning and end, Frost's poetry is more joyful at the beginning and more wisdom at the end.

Isara solutions, 2023

The expression of art is a result of myriad external and internal influences. To a writer or a poet, the internalization of the external environment renders a definite shape to his art. If the politics of the day 6worms into his thought process, so does the physical environment, in whose arms he grows. In this line of analysis, the perception of Richard Kerridge in the British "Writing the Environment" assumes importance: The ecocritic wants to track environmental ideas and representations wherever they appear, to see more clearly a debate which seems to be taking place, often part concealed, in a great many cultural spaces. Most of all, ecocriticism seeks to evaluate texts and ideas in terms of their coherence and usefulness as response to environmental crisis (5). The paper attempts at an ecocritical reading of Wordsworth's poetry, exploring the nuances of the poet's response to his habitat. In "Lines written in early spring," Wordsworth fondly reflects on the beautiful creatures in nature and endorses them as "fair works of nature" as he goes on to declare: The birds around me hopped and played, / Their thoughts I cannot measure:-/ But the least motion which they made/ It seemed a thrill of pleasure./ He further insists that "If such be nature's holy plan/ Have I not reason to lament/What man has made of man? (Poetry Foundation.org.) The lamenting of the shifting priorities of the human society is vocalized with grief to foreground what Wordsworth believes is a slow but certain detachment from nature in the journey of technical progress. Wordsworth unfolds a deep sense of oneness with his immediate surroundings. The adjective "holy" attributes a degree of sacredness to all living species involved in the voyage of life. This is in contrast to the philosophy of Rene' Descartes who "hyperseparated mind and body, and denied to animals not only the faculty of reason, but the whole range of feelings and sensations that he associated with thought. As a result, he saw animals as radically different from, and inferior to, humans. They were bodies without minds, effectively machines." (Garrard 25) There is a belief among ecocritics that Romantic "nature" is far from being endangered, an idea that claims that Wordsworth might be ignorant of environmental hazards. In the above poem, the distancing of man from the pleasures of mother nature anguishes the poet, and the reiteration of the last line certainly must carry the imagination of how man would desecrate nature in due course

2012

life. He addresses the Derwent River, the stream that runs behind the Wordsworth's House, where Wordsworth had his birth at Cockermouth, asking: Was it for this That one, the fairest of all rivers, loved To blend his murmurs with my nurse's song, And, from his alder shades and rocky falls, And from his fords and shallows, sent a voice That flowed along my dreams? (Book I, ll. 269-274). Yet this question might be rephrased in general terms that orientate Wordsworth's arguments along the whole narrative: Was it for this result that Nature dispensed such a high education for the poet? The answer should be "No". Nature's instruction can only lead to the formation of a powerful mind and to the execution of a glorious and durable work. The river provides such elements to young Wordsworth's sensibility ready to be addressed by the faculty of imagination, bringing him: Amid the fretful dwellings of mankind A foretaste, a dim earnest, of the calm That Nature breathes among the hills and groves. (Book I, ll. 279-281). Wordsworth created the poetic model for a naïve belief in the power of Nature's forms to provide for the formation of the human spirit. As he conceives, Nature informs and feeds the faculty of imagination, whose fitting presence can be recognized spontaneously through the emotions, thoughts and dreams. The correspondence between the external influence of Nature and the internal activity of the imagination may be aknowledged through a parallel syntax describing the course of a stream from the remotest places into the most accessible sites: We have traced the stream From the blind cavern whence is faintly heard Its natal murmur; followed it to light And open day; accompanied its course Among the ways of Nature, (Book XIV, ll. 198-194). Imagination grows because of the interfusion of sensory, emotional, spiritual and intellectual affections from Nature's elements. Nevertheless, it is through imagination that the poet is able to converse with Nature, to interpret and understand her language.

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William Wordsworth is universally recognized as a great poet of Nature. But he was not content to be thought as poet of Nature only, singing the sensuous bliss of a life lived in natural surroundings, like Cowper in The task: “God made the country, and Man Made the town”. Wordsworth is an outstanding philosophical poet, whose ultimate theme was not Nature only, but the heart of Man also. And the poetry of man took in his hands a rapid development as the poetry of Nature. Whereas Robert Frost is also a great poet of Nature but he is even greater as a poet of man. His landscapes are all landscape with human figures. Frost himself once remarked that he had hardly written two poems without a human being in them. He has written on almost every subject. He has illuminated things as common as a woodpile and as common as a Prehistoric pebble, as natural as a bird singing in its sleep and as ‘mechanistic’ as a revolt of a factory worker. On the other hand, Wordsworth’s poetry shows how human beings fit into the midst the interplaying forces of Nature. He believes that there is a pre-existing harmony between the mind of Man and Nature. Both the poets Wordsworth as a Romantic and Frost as a Modern, have different attitudes towards Nature and its relation to human beings.