Question

Describe about the spiritual healing properties as devised by william wordsworth in the poem daffodils

Answer 1

Explanation:

When going through William Wordsworth‟s poetry, we can note how far his

passion for Nature is evident and multiple. This affirmation is shared by many critics. The

English journalist and author, Thomas De Quincy, declares that “Wordsworth had his passion

for nature fixed in his blood. It was a necessity of his being, like that of a mulberry leaf to the

silk-worm, and through his commerce with nature did he live and breathe” (143). As it can be

noticed, the use of the mulberry leaf and the silk-worm image expresses Wordsworth‟s vision

of nature as a source of literary inspiration. However, Wordsworth is concerned far less with

the sensuous manifestations which delight most of the poets of Nature, than with the spiritual

that he finds underlying these manifestations. These words of Arthur Compton-Rickett

confirm this remark: “It was Wordsworth‟s aim as a poet to seek beauty in meadow,

woodland, and the mountain top and to interpret this beauty in spiritual terms” (308). It

appears clearly that the divinization of nature, which began in the modern world at the

Renaissance and proceeded during the eighteenth century, culminates for English literature in

Wordsworth. Unlike his contemporaries such as Coleridge, Byron, and Keats, Wordsworth

has intellectualised Nature. Hence, the nickname “Prophet of Nature” (Mukherjee 20) is

attributed to him and makes him not merely a poet of nature who is concerned less to marvel

at its beauty than to exult at its inner significance.