Attitudes Towards Nature in Poetry
Discuss Wordsworth's and Coleridge's attitudes to nature in Their
poetry with particular reference to Resolution and Independence
(The Leech Gatherer) and This Lime Tree Bower my prison
Coleridge and Wordsworth are both now referred to as Romantic poets,
during the romanticism period there was a major movement of emphasis
in the arts towards looking at the world and recognising the beauty of
human's emotions and imaginations and the world in which we live.
From the 18th century some saw imagination as a disease of which most
poets suffered, for others imagination was the ability to remember or
draw something that wasn't directly present.
Coleridge speaks of the imagination as
'The distinguishing characteristic of man as a human being' (In his
'Essay of Education') Wordsworth defines imagination as the 'clearest
insight, amplitude of mind, / an reason in her most exalted mood' in
book fourteen of the prelude.
One of the characteristics of Romanticism is exploring the
relationship between nature and human life. Both Wordsworth and
Coleridge focus's on this strongly in there poems. They examine nature
and how it effects mans imagination and mind. For this they were
highly criticised. They looked inside mans imagination rather than
intellect. This was a concept others could not understand. Their work
contrasted with the earlier 18th century poets of whom had a
structures intellectual reasoned approach to their work. They had
classical characteristics such as proportion and dignity.
Romanticism concentrated on Passions and Sublimity used frequently in
the poets work (a grand spectacular landscape that can stimulate
spiritual awareness,) the infinite and indefi...
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...ound him. There is a small image of nature right infront of him
which he was too blind to see at first through his anger and
frustration. The Bower is filled with radiance and sublimity and as he
feels happy and content he is sure Lamb will feel the same. Nature has
stimulated and revived his spirits.he is impressed by what surrounds
him and the silence which is aiding his reflection: "Wheels silent by,
and not a swallow twitters, Yet still the solitary humble-bee Sings in
the bean-flower!" Coleridge realises that nature has never deserted
him and he was stupid to think so. HE describes nature as a power that
can influence peoples lives and something that links together
everything. Nature has linked him with his friends on their walk and
at the end of the poem Coleridge is sure that Lamb will have seen the
sunset too. There for joining them in matrimony.
In Regina Barreca’s Poem, “Nighttime Fires”, she uses many elements of poetry to help portray the theme of the poem. Poetry is all about the way it is written. Poetry is short, so it tends to be much more complex than a novel. Poetry uses many elements to help the reader fully understand what the poet’s overall goal is. It is easy for the reader’s to enjoy this poem because it is easy to understand, and it can paint a great picture in the readers mind about the poem, using such elements. “Nighttime Fires” uses many elements such as: Tone, Image, and Figures of Speech.
... of nature. In fact, this belief, which does beg the question, is what predominates his thinking.
In the essay I hope to explain why I picked each poem and to suggest
Langston Hughes and Kate Chopin use nature in several dimensions to demonstrate the powerful struggles and burdens of human life. Throughout Kate Chopin's The Awakening and several of Langston Hughes' poems, the sweeping imagery of the beauty and power of nature demonstrates the struggles the characters confront, and their eventual freedom from those struggles. Nature and freedom coexist, and the characters eventually learn to find freedom from the confines of society, oneself, and finally freedom within one's soul. The use of nature for this purpose brings the characters and speakers in Chopin's and Hughes' works to life, and the reader feels the life and freedom of those characters.
When humans and nature come together, they either coexist harmoniously because nature's inhabitants and humans share a mutual respect and understanding for each other, or they clash because humans attempt to control and force their ways of life on nature. The poems, "The Bull Moose" by Alden Nowlan, "The Panther" by Rainer Maria Rilke, "Walking the Dog" by Howard Nemerov, and "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop, describe what happens when humans and nature come together. I believe that when humans and nature come together they either clash and conflict because individuals destroy and attempt to control nature, which is a reflection of their powerful need to control themselves, or humans live peacefully with nature because not only do they admire and respect nature, but also they can see themselves in nature.
Poetry is a form of written word which has experience created by sound and meaning. It integrates various elements: Imagery; a figurative language which prompts the reader as well as the listener of the poem to create mental images. Poetic choice of words; this is based on the sound that is, denotation and connotation. Denotation refers to the accurate meaning of the word while connotation refers to the intended meaning of a word. The sound is another element of poetry which about the rhyme; words that sound similar or exactly alike in the poem. It employs metaphor which expresses something new and meaning way by way of comparison on unlike things. The theme as the main element is the purpose of the poem. Poetry is tied as an art because of
by frogs we can tell the weather ‘For they were yellow in the sun and
Man's Relationship with Nature in Hughes and Wordsworth's Poetry Concentrating on one Poem by each Poet, Compare and Contrast the ways in which Hughes and Wordsworth Present Man’s Relationship with Nature Both Hughes and Wordsworth have beliefs about man’s relationship with nature, but I feel that they see the relationship between the two in different ways. Hughes has a more pessimistic and negative approach, feeling that nature must protect herself from man’s destructive nature, while Wordsworth believes that nature is a teacher and nurtures you. Wordsworth uses a more optimistic and positive approach in his poetry. Wordsworth sees nature in a romantic and spiritual sense that protects and is constantly feeding and inspiring man’s mind and helping it to grow. On the other hand Hughes sees man as interfering and destructive towards nature and is excluded from its harmony.
Responses to Poems Poetry is known to stimulate powerful responses in readers. Examine your reactions to these poems. How do they make you feel and why? Analyse the link between the various techniques used by the poets and your personal response.
Robert Frost is an amazing poet that many admire today. He is an inspiration to many poets today. His themes and ideas are wonderful and are valued by many. His themes are plentiful however a main one used is the theme of nature. Frost uses nature to express his views as well as to make his poetry interesting and easy to imagine in your mind through the detail he supplies.
Nature played an important role in all works of the Romantics but I believe it is John Keats and William Wordsworth who understood not nature in themselves but themselves in nature. As Wordsworth once said: "the feeling therein developed gives importance to the action and situation and not the action and situation to the feeling." 1 Both Keats and Wordsworth understood that the most complex feelings and emotions can be described and understood when related with a simple act of nature.
Many poets are inspired by the impressive persona that exists in nature to influence their style of poetry. The awesome power of nature can bring about thought and provoke certain feelings the poet has towards the natural surroundings.
The poem “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth is about the poet’s mental journey in nature where he remembers the daffodils that give him joy when he is lonely and bored. The poet is overwhelmed by nature’s beauty where he thought of it while lying alone on his couch. The poem shows the relationship between nature and the poet, and how nature’s motion and beauty influences the poet’s feelings and behaviors for the good. Moreover, the process that the speaker goes through is recollected that shows that he isolated from society, and is mentally in nature while he is physically lying on his couch. Therefore, William Wordsworth uses figurative language and syntax and form throughout the poem to express to the readers the peace and beauty of nature, and to symbolize the adventures that occurred in his mental journey.
We human beings can not separate from nature. No nature, no human beings. As far as poetry is concerned, nature plays a great important role on it, for uncountable poets have been writing lots and lots of great poems on it along the history of human beings. America is not an exceptional. My paper is right to deal with nature in American poetry.
In William Wordsworth’s poems, the role of nature plays a more reassuring and pivotal r ole within them. To Wordsworth’s poetry, interacting with nature represents the forces of the natural world. Throughout the three poems, Resolution and Independence, Tintern Abbey, and Michael, which will be discussed in this essay, nature is seen prominently as an everlasting- individual figure, which gives his audience as well as Wordsworth, himself, a sense of console. In all three poems, Wordsworth views nature and human beings as complementary elements of a sum of a whole, recognizing that humans are a sum of nature. Therefore, looking at the world as a soothing being of which he is a part of, Wordsworth looks at nature and sees the benevolence of the divinity aspects behind them. For Wordsworth, the world itself, in all its glory, can be a place of suffering, which surely occurs within the world; Wordsworth is still comforted with the belief that all things happen by the hands of the divinity and the just and divine order of nature, itself.