This blog comprises valuable information of literature and criticism. Post a Comment Please, do not enter any spam link in the comment box. William Wordsworth as a Poet of Nature. Wordsworth - Poet of Nature. William Wordsworth has been considered as the pioneer of English Romanticism and he can be called as an interpreter of Nature. He published the "Lyrical Ballads" in collaboration with his friend S. Coleridge in The poet achieved the acme of popularity due to his lyrics which dealt with the relationship of man with Nature.
Wordsworth looked at man through Nature's kind eye and he has recorded his lovely experiences from his childhood to adulthood in his famous autobiographical poem "The Prelude" in and it was published in According to some critics, he is the most egotistical poet in the arena of English poetry.
Wordsworth has a peculiar view to look at the beauty of Nature and human life. He feels the presence of God in Nature. He believes that there is a living element in Nature, which is capable of arousing the feeling of pity and fear.
In many of his poems, Wordsworth has described the profound influence of Nature on him which moulded his personality. As a 'sage poet', he finds the spiritual force in Nature which brings solace and comfort to the troubled and disturbed minds and the dejected and disillusioned hearts.
Arthur Compton-Rickett states -. William Wordsworth believes that the spiritual force in Nature imparts "a sense sublime" and the Divine Spirit" in Nature is omniscient, omnipresent, and omnipotent.
In his famous autobiographical poem "Tintern Abbey", the poet feels and experiences -. Wordsworth believes that man can unite his soul with the 'Universal Soul' which governs everything. The communion between man and Nature leads to bliss and prosperity.
William Wordswith, one of the greatest poets in England, is known as the poet of nature. His poems took on greater significance in English literature. The purpose of this essay is to study his source of forming such a lyrical style and the process he expressed his ideal in singing highly of the nature to show my respect towards him. At the turn of the 18th and the 19th centuries, romanticism came to be the new trend in English literature.
William Wordsworth, the representative poet of Romanticism, whose poems took on greater significance, brought a totally new and fresh stream of air to the European literary field. Wordsworth, the glittering star, is always shinning in English literature. His whole life had a close connection with nature—the permanent subject sung highly by human being.
He held a firm faith that nature could enlighten the kindheartedness and universal brotherhood of human being, and only existing in harmony with nature where man could get true happiness.
All of them revealed the poets genuine love towards the nature, the fervent enthusiasm of pursuing the truth of life. Born in Cockermouth, just on the northern fringe of the English Lake district, he spent his childhood there. As a child, he often wandered among the fields and woods. At the age of 8, he was fed by one of his relatives who gave him simple food and shelter, but freedom of enjoying the nature.
The Natural scenes and sounds gave his imagination wings and made him getting to know the cottagers, shepherds, and solitary wanders that then entered his dreams and even his later poems. At the age of 14, Wordsworth was sent to school at Hawkshead in the beautiful lake district in northwestern England.
The sights and sounds of Nature thrilled him. The poet was moved by something mysterious in Nature and the great mission of his life became to preach the gospel and the secret message of Nature to humanity.
He begins to feel from now the presence of a soul and a living spirit in the objects of Nature. He now starts finding, into natural objects. Finally the poet reaches a stage where he feels the presence of a common unity, among the different objects which is divine in origin. This universal unity, according to Wordsworth is due to the permeation of divine Which reveals the fact that with Nature he can now associate human To Wordsworth the different objects of Nature are a perenial source of joy to mankind.
It not only gives him happiness but also helps him in which is inspired by the presence of divine spirit in them. He finds it in the objects are different but there is an undercurrent of semblance and unity shining of the stars and also marks it in the flowering of the fields- facing the ordeals of life.
Thus though in outward manifestation the various inspiration in them. Which reveals the fact that with Nature he can now associate human sufferings and sorrows. To Wordsworth the different objects of Nature are a perenial source of joy to mankind. It not only gives him happiness but also helps him in facing the ordeals of life. Wordsworth had a full-fledged philosophy, a new and original view of Nature.
Three points in his creed of Nature may be noted:. He believed that there is a divine spirit pervading all the objects of Nature. This belief in a divine spirit pervading all the objects of Nature may be termed as mystical Pantheism and is fully expressed in Tintern Abbey and in several passages in Book II of The Prelude. He spiritualised Nature and regarded her as a great moral teacher, as the best mother, guardian and nurse of man, and as an elevating influence.
According to him, human beings who grow up in the lap of Nature are perfect in every respect. Wordsworth believed that we can learn more of man and of moral evil and good from Nature than from all the philosophies. In this he was somewhat influenced by Rousseau. It speaks to the child in the fleeting emotions of early years, and stirs the young poet to an ecstasy, the glow of which illuminates all his work and dies of his life. Development of His Love for Nature.
In Tintern Abbey , Wordsworth traces the development of his love for Nature. To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Spiritual Meaning in Natural Objects. A sunrise for him is not a pageant of colour; it is a moment of spiritual consecration:. My heart was full; I made no vows, but vows Were then made for me; bound unknown to me Was given, that I should be, else sinning greatly, A dedicated Spirit.
It is the source of some of his greatest pieces, grand rhapsodies such as Tintern Abbey.
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