In the 1800 Preface to lyrical Ballads, Wordworth said that he wrote about people whose 'passions…are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature'. Discuss
In the 1800 Preface to lyrical Ballads, Wordworth said that he wrote about people whose 'passions...are incorporated with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature'. Discuss the significance of nature to romantic poets by comparing poetry from lyrical ballads with at least one other romantic work you have studied.
Wordsworth had a huge love and appreciation for nature, which expressed throughout all forms of his poetry, he did so more clearly and obviously in lyrical ballads but it can also be shown in the Prelude. Wordsworth love of nature grew into a form of respect and worship, it was often said that his work made it sound as if he saw expressing his feelings of nature a form of religious worship. In his poetry Wordworth made it seem as if God lived in all things natural, many people thought that Wordworth was Pagan. Wordsworth grew up in the lake district, which surrounded him with nature from an early age this was a huge influence of Wordworth as he was not exposed to city life and was brought up to appreciate nature and the natural environment. A link between nature is seen in his poetry, it is very important as it shows great meaning behind Wordworth expression of his love for nature, making the feelings shown intense, this is a common idea shown in romantic poetry. To Wordworth nature was purer and more wholesome.
In Keats poem 'Ode to a Nightingale' he also explores aspects of nature as does words worth in 'lines written in early spring' which are typical of those in romantic poetry .Keats starts off looking at a typical romantic idea focusing on himself as an individual looking at his own feelings. When the Nightingale is introduced in line five 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot' the nightingale is shown as having complete happiness the Nightingales happiness inspires Keats to become happy and gets him into a better mood. Keats also looks at the idea that nature is mystical and has elements of the spiritual within it . The idea that nature has a higher power is explored by many of the romantic writers. Keats then goes on to explain how he wishes to escape the real world , and instead be apart of nature with the nightingale. This idea of nature being separate from the world of men is seen in Wordworth works such as in Lines written in Early Spring. Wordsworth is saddened by the fact that nature is at peace while the man made world is so disrupted, he wanted to escape the ever changing world of humans and escape through the mind into that of the world of nature. In Ode to a nightingale Keats also wants to escape the human world and wants to do so through death or through alcohol, this is also known as a romantic idea, the idea of escaping realisation through hallucinations , alcohol and death. Death would mean a form of spiritual escapism, and can be seen that death would make you at one with nature as the body will become buried in the ground and eventually would become an actually part of the world. Keats method of escape is far more realistic to those of Wordworth as he acknowledges that it is only in the mind and is possibly a hallucination, at the end of the poem Keats comes back to the real world.
Wordsworth had a huge love and appreciation for nature, which expressed throughout all forms of his poetry, he did so more clearly and obviously in lyrical ballads but it can also be shown in the Prelude. Wordsworth love of nature grew into a form of respect and worship, it was often said that his work made it sound as if he saw expressing his feelings of nature a form of religious worship. In his poetry Wordworth made it seem as if God lived in all things natural, many people thought that Wordworth was Pagan. Wordsworth grew up in the lake district, which surrounded him with nature from an early age this was a huge influence of Wordworth as he was not exposed to city life and was brought up to appreciate nature and the natural environment. A link between nature is seen in his poetry, it is very important as it shows great meaning behind Wordworth expression of his love for nature, making the feelings shown intense, this is a common idea shown in romantic poetry. To Wordworth nature was purer and more wholesome.
In Keats poem 'Ode to a Nightingale' he also explores aspects of nature as does words worth in 'lines written in early spring' which are typical of those in romantic poetry .Keats starts off looking at a typical romantic idea focusing on himself as an individual looking at his own feelings. When the Nightingale is introduced in line five 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot' the nightingale is shown as having complete happiness the Nightingales happiness inspires Keats to become happy and gets him into a better mood. Keats also looks at the idea that nature is mystical and has elements of the spiritual within it . The idea that nature has a higher power is explored by many of the romantic writers. Keats then goes on to explain how he wishes to escape the real world , and instead be apart of nature with the nightingale. This idea of nature being separate from the world of men is seen in Wordworth works such as in Lines written in Early Spring. Wordsworth is saddened by the fact that nature is at peace while the man made world is so disrupted, he wanted to escape the ever changing world of humans and escape through the mind into that of the world of nature. In Ode to a nightingale Keats also wants to escape the human world and wants to do so through death or through alcohol, this is also known as a romantic idea, the idea of escaping realisation through hallucinations , alcohol and death. Death would mean a form of spiritual escapism, and can be seen that death would make you at one with nature as the body will become buried in the ground and eventually would become an actually part of the world. Keats method of escape is far more realistic to those of Wordworth as he acknowledges that it is only in the mind and is possibly a hallucination, at the end of the poem Keats comes back to the real world.
