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Wordsworth, poet of nature and poet of man. Front Cover. Elias Hershey Sneath. Kennikat Press, - Literary Criticism - pages. 0 Reviews.
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Galloping on horseback with other Hawkshead schoolboys, and exploring the ruined Furness Abbey, the boy listened to an invisible bird that 'sang to itself' so sweetly that,. The wonder of the universe and a sense of timelessness: perceptions like these cut into the boisterous activities of the schoolboy. The eternal was glimpsed. Wordsworth knew that Nature had let him 'drink' a 'visionary power' ibid. It reminds us that he is perhaps our greatest poet of transcendence, that through Nature he could apprehend the spiritual beyond the immediacy of the material.
It was intense, solitary, and important. As he worked on The Prelude , sometimes known as the Poem on the Growth of his own Mind , in , Wordsworth gave thanks to the Mountains, Lakes, sounding Cataracts, Mists and Winds 'that dwell among the hills where I was born' ibid. He had seen his peaceful hopes for change in society lost in aggression, and he had seen Robespierre tumbled, only to be replaced by grasping Napoleon.
He was now living in an England that had grown to fear Revolution, where men of idealism had become disillusioned, and where government was punitive. Only his relationship with Nature, built up over years, now, in these times of 'dereliction and dismay' allowed Wordsworth to 'Despair not of our nature' ibid.
Indeed, since returning from France in late , Wordsworth had come to see Nature not only in terms of the relationship between himself and the natural world, but also as intimately linked with the problems of society:. In the poem he recalls his time there five years previously, in , when he still had hope that England's social structure might change, and when his physical joy in Nature was still uppermost.
He tells us in his poem that 'like a roe' he 'bounded o'er the mountains', that,.
Five years on, however, in , he had suffered political disillusion and personal trauma, and Nature had become inextricably linked with the human. The sadness of humanity made itself heard in 'Tintern Abbey'; yet, fused into the context of Nature, that sadness was heard as music, as something beautiful. The poem draws into itself that volume's many experimental poems about the disregarded outcasts of society: its old, poor, abandoned, unemployed, handicapped.
These, added to the depression that Wordsworth felt, which was caused by the French Revolution and England's continuing war with France, gave significance to his 'hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity'.
And so, while the poem is indeed an impassioned poem of faith in Nature and its transcendent powers, it is also a poem that allows for doubt: 'If this be but a vain belief These hesitations surface within the belief expressed in the poem, but then sink down, and Wordsworth, sure at least of his own experience of Nature's beneficial power, was able to end the poem with a strong positive thrust, praying that Nature might bring future consolation to another, his younger sister, as it had to him. Before turning to Dorothy, it might be worth emphasising that, as 'Tintern Abbey' demonstrates, there is a fluidity in Wordsworth.
His position was not static; he could not always feel Nature's transcendent power. At times, and increasingly, he felt loss:. Whither is fled the visionary gleam? Wordsworth left the 'Ode' unfinished with this question in , answering it two years later in and almost reversing the earlier balance between Nature and Man. For Wordsworth, Nature in was neither so triumphant nor so transcendent a presence as hitherto, and humanity now brought the dominant consolation, and had power even to make Nature meaningful.
It was the human heart with its tenderness, joys and fears that gave to the meanest flower, 'Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. That 'something far more deeply interfused' of 'Tintern Abbey' whose 'dwelling was the light of setting suns' in , and in whose presence the poet felt a 'sense sublime' and heard oftentimes the music of humanity, is scarcely present in Wordsworth's writing of this time. It was the human eye 'that hath kept watch o'er man's mortality' that leant a 'sober colouring' to the 'Clouds that gather round the setting sun'.
They had no glory from any other source. So positions in Wordsworth's poetry are not absolute; attitudes are not forever discarded or forever taken on. In a phase of fancy he could, for example, impose on Nature attitudes learnt from books, could thus provide a Yew tree with a ghost: 'That took its station there for ornament' The Prelude VIII, , or turn a black rock, 'wet with constant springs' and glistening far off into a 'burnished shield over a Knight's tomb suspended' ibid.
Such fancifulness did not last. Wordsworth himself tried in The Prelude to tell the full story of his relationship with Nature, tried to clarify its pattern. It was an impossible task, yet in endeavouring to do it Wordsworth in magnificent poetry has rendered his relationship with Nature rich and significant for his readers at every point. On their mother's death, when she was six and William was seven, she was sent to Halifax to be brought up.
She did not meet her brothers again in all those years, and knew nothing of them or of their life in the Lake District. She then went for a short period to grandparents in Penrith, and ecstatic meetings with her brothers were allowed to take place in the school holidays. Between the ages of 16 and 22 she lived with her uncle William Cookson's family, in his rectory in Norfolk. Dorothy tended to see the natural world as something outside herself, as having its own existence in which, as a separate person, she could delight.
She had had no grammar school education, no Cambridge, no London, no French experience of Revolution. She had no experience of love, and - unlike her brother, who had had to abandon his lover and child in France - no offspring. Wordsworth saw in his sister his own past freshness, as she reacted to the beauty of the Wye in ; he saw in her an image of how he himself had been, in his earlier years of high hopes and 'wild ecstasies' such as those that Dorothy was now experiencing.
But Dorothy was not a reflection of her brother. Not having had Wordsworth's intense early inner life in relation to Nature, she tended to see the natural world as something outside herself, as having its own existence in which, as a separate person, she could delight. Apart from the resting flowers, even those in the dance have different movements. And, humanised as Dorothy makes them, neither they nor the wind nor the lake had any concern with the observers, William and Dorothy Wordsworth. They were not offering a tutelary lesson in morals or inviting their viewers to a perception of transcendence.
They were dancing in wind; they are alive. They had life's weariness, but more, its joyousness, and Dorothy's delight in the spectacle is clear from the energy of her language. But the daffodils were not explicitly related to herself. Skip to main content. You're using an out-of-date version of Internet Explorer. Log In Sign Up. William Wordsworth and his love for nature. Umama Shah.
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He was part of the Romantic Movement in English poetry which set itself at odds with the standards of the previous generation. Romanticism has been typically described as a condition of flux, in which imprecise yearnings, a preference for nature rather than machines, primitivism instead of civilizations and intuition rather than rationality prevails. Wordsworth however was not a typical romantic, following the cult or rebellion for its own sake. Rather he saw the dawning of a new literary epoch as a chance to liberate the stilled poetic diction of his day and create a language of men speaking to men.
Wordsworth is a high-priest of nature and worshipper of Nature. His love of Nature is perhaps truer, more sincere and more loving than that of any other English poet.
William Wordsworth
He had a complete philosophy of nature. He believed that there is a divine spirit pervading all the objects of nature. This belief finds a complete expression in his nature poem Tinturn Abbey. According to him, Nature removes the depression and agony of human mind. William Wordsworth feels that the beauty of nature is not only the pleasure to present but also will give pleasure in future. The poet regards nature as the best mother, best nurse of man and a great moral teacher.
William Wordsworth believes that there is a spiritual relation between man and nature. Nature deeply influences human characters. Nature is the source of purest thought. Mysticism is inseparable from his pantheism. According to Wordsworth spiritual power lives and breathes through all the works of nature. Profound religious feelings pervade all his nature poetry. The anchor of my purest thought, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul Of all my moral being.
Unlike the nature poet Robert Frost, Wordsworth believes that poetry is the outcome of personal spiritual or mystical experience. God reflected himself through the nature. He believes that we can achieve happiness by worshiping nature. For the great love he is considered a greatest poet of nature.
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To the Nature poet Wordsworth, Nature is a best freind of man who never deciets her lover. Wordsworth is a worshiper of Nature. His love of Nature is tender and truer than any other English poets. There is a separate status of Nature in his poems. He believed that there is a divine spirit in nature.