Our Own World Is Portrayed By William Wordsworth

While both poets Muir and Wordsworth wrote about the happy feelings that they have towards nature the beautiful outdoors or what some people may say Mother Nature, some of which the feelings are the same and some that are different as they speak of the different plants.

Wordsworth, like other Romantic Poets, with his overwhelming mind observed life with greater suction and fundamentality; his partaking in the working of life was keen and so minute that when he did finally caught up with the philosophy of life his poems became more and more sublime and transcendental in feelings. In his Preface to the “Lyrical Ballads” republished in 1800 described a Poet and his working which in a way popularized self-expression connecting an object of little importance to the infinite vision of the Creator. His grew as a poet gradually with

The reason Wordsworth wrote this poem was to express the beauty of all nature and how we take its beauty for granted. He is wishing to convey that we should acknowledge nature because we are nature and nature is in all of use. Also that we should admire its beauty

In concord to this, the Norton Anthology of English Literature characterises this poem as an inauguration of “[Wordsworth's] “myth of nature”: his presentation of the “growth” of his mind to maturity, a process unfolding through the interaction between the inner world of the mind and the shaping force of external nature” (Willliam Wordsworth 1770-1850, 271).” It is no wonder John Keats describes Wordsworth's poetry as “excessively self-centred” (“Egotistical Sublime”), thereby strengthening the argument of Wordsworth's focus on the individual.

William Wordsworth existed in a time when society and its functions were beginning to rapidly pick up. The poem that he 'Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye', gave him a chance to reflect upon his quick paced life by taking a moment to slow down and absorb the beauty of nature that allows one to 'see into the life of things'; (line 49). Wordsworth's 'Tintern Abbey'; takes you on a series of emotional states by trying to sway 'readers and himself, that the loss of innocence and intensity over time is compensated by an accumulation of knowledge and insight.'; Wordsworth accomplishes to prove that although time was lost along with his innocence, he

Throughout “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” William Wordsworth shows his relationship with nature through his choice of diction, fantastic descriptions, and shifting mood of his poem. There are also many words and phrases that Wordsworth included into his poem that shows how he feels about nature. These phrases are well written, extremely descriptive, and show how Wordsworth is influenced by the wild: “I wandered lonely as a cloud”, “When all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils", “Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way, they stretched in never-ending line along the margin of a bay: ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance”, “The waves beside them danced; but they out-did the sparkling waves in glee”, “I gazed—and gazed—but little thought what wealth the show to me had brought”, and “For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eye [...] and then my heart with pleasure fills, and dances with the daffodils.” Another phrase, which indicates that the flowers were so beautiful that no true poet could be sad in their presence, also builds upon Wordsworth’s relationship with nature. These particular lines in “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” show how Wordsworth’s mood shifts from somber and lonely to joyous and content. The lines also show how the gorgeousness of nature sticks with

Wordsworth believes that society stands so far from Nature that he wishes to convert to

Previously in the commencement of my essay, I had posed a question along the lines of “How did Wordsworth and Muir come to this point of pure and utter infatuation with the nature that surrounds them?” Throughout the close analysis and investigation I have done studying the two, I have come to discover that these masters in their craft of writing have an interesting point-of-view that differs from the average individual; they simply have a deeper rooted connection to their environment whether that be due solely to the fact that they just love nature or that they approach life in a more literary manner to the point that even the most mere blade of grass can be surrounded by just the right words to be glorified in such a way that it sounds even

For most poets of the Romantic Age, nature played an invaluable role in their works. Man’s existence could be affected and explained by the presence and portrayal of the external nature surrounding it. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are no different from the other Romantic poets, and their works abound with references to nature and its correlation to humanity. Specifically, Wordsworth’s “The Ruined Cottage” and Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” share the theme of nature affecting man, although essential differences exist in their ideas regarding how it affects man. These two

The way humans live is unnatural. He called it a “sordid boon”. By definition, sordid can mean morally ignoble. Therefore the poem is on the topic of the sins of human kind, but hat is only the beginning. There are deeper meaning scattered throughout the poem. He says “we lay waste to our power.” In which “powers” meaning humans ability of the senses. Instead of participating in Wordsworth’s ideology, we waste our natural abilities and time. We shove away our memories and friends. We avoid human interaction and just live life thinking about ourselves and the things we want. He believes we should spend more time absorbing the peace and respect of nature. Nature has lost it tie to our culture. “It moves us not.” He goes on to say that “little we see in nature is ours,” because people have abandoned nature and that there is nothing in nature we can posses. Nature belongs to no one. You can’t by the earth, the sea, the trees, the flowers, or the sky. The world has no dollar value, which the people at the time and even of this time don’t understand. The age of materialism and industrialism is what has taken society so far away from nature. “For this, for everything, we are out of tune.” People see nature for what they want instead of what it is. The environment suffered catastrophic damage during the

Wordsworth saw how the industrialization and the Age of Reason restrained nature and made society isolated from nature by giving importance to worldly possessions and material goods. To Wordsworth society solely concentrated on “…getting and spending,” (line 2) completely “…out of tune,” (line 8) with nature. Wordsworth passionately advocated against this consumer mentality and such was his vehement dissolution and discontent that he “rather be a Pagan suckled in a creed outworn” (line 10). This allusion to paganism, an outdated and primitive religion that saw everything in nature as being alive with souls, serves to highlight his great disappointment and discontent with society’s detachment and negligence of nature.

Lastly, the Romantic Era blended human emotions with nature. The interfacing of emotion and nature was emblematic of Romantic poetry, whether it engrossed the idea of bequeathing human emotions to an innate article like a river or connecting the scenery to the temperament of the writer. (James, 491) This kind of beauty that is

The beauty of nature is often overlooked and underappreciated in today’s society. The neglect and lack of respect given to such a beautiful creation by members of society is widely reflected in Romantic poetry. The romantic era began in 1798, where writers such as William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge expressed their opinions and feelings towards nature. Overall such writers typically express a positive outlook on the natural world around them, however some stray the other way. Specifically Coleridge and Wordsworth began to express the feeling of disconnect towards nature. Both writers began to feel as though they could not understand nature and cannot connect with the beauty it gives off as expressed in poems such as “Dejection”, “London 1802”, and “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”. Not only did some of these writers begin to feel a disconnect but a select few also begin to feel as though people are disrespecting the balance of nature and are trying to disrupt the balance and manipulate it. Writers such as Mary Shelley, author of the novel Frankenstein, expresses the concern of people taking the laws of nature and twisting them. Writers and people living during this time period not only express an appreciation for nature but also the truth about the human relationship with nature. The relationship between humans and nature is on of mistreatment.

The introduction of English Romantic Movement is credited to Wordsworth in the publication that revealed a deep intimate experience with nature in his poetic values. He stood supreme by pioneering the inclusion of nature in poetry. His love for nature seems tenderer from the position it occupied differently from the casual treatment in publications of other poets (Pradip Kumar Patra 34). The publication of Lyrical Ballads symbolized Wordsworth belief of nature as an instrument of romanticism.

Where Wordsworth focused too on love and nature at first, he then took on more spiritual subjects. Further, if we assume that Wordsworth’s imitation of “The Retreat” was intentional, then Vaughan may have even been a poetic model (in some sense) for Wordsworth later in life. True, Wordsworth is not generally considered a religious poet; he would never have originally considered Vaughan a model because of the latter’s extreme religiosity. Yet if these two poems don’t echo in godly gestures per se, they do in a more spiritual sense—and perhaps Wordsworth, as a man confronted with his own mortality, found Vaughan’s treatise on the spirit’s immortality a sympathetic sentiment. Thus by comparing the two, we also might better understand Wordsworth’s poetic progression.