Question

Describe in your own words the poet’s preoccupation with nature

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Explanation:

It has been said that the romantic poets were preoccupied with nature, both for its simple pleasures and as a conduit to the divine. Each of the poets viewed and used nature in a variety of ways, dependant on their personal philosophies. Arriving on the literary landscape at a time in which the industrial era was well underway and at the end of the age of reason, poets like Wordsworth and Coleridge saw lessons in nature. Both of them took this further, viewing nature as a guide and teacher. On the other hand, Keats used nature as a metaphor to describe human feeling and experience. Shelley viewed nature and human culture as parts of a greater whole, at times the natural world replacing a religion he no longer believed in. With that in mind, were the romantic poets simply preoccupied with nature, or was this infatuation part of a rebellion and exploration of the rapidly changing world around them?

William Wordsworth could perhaps be considered the foremost nature lover of the prominent English romantics. Shelley, in To Wordsworth (1816, p. 863), describes him as a ‘Poet of Nature’, a title that seems quite apt after but a brief scan of his works. Andrew Hubbell writes of critics using the term ‘Wordsworthian eco-poesis’, creating a standard of nature poetry with which to compare all others (2010, p. 14). In the poem The tables turned (1798, p.765), Wordsworth is either proclaiming, or being called himself, by the sun, to ‘Let Nature be your Teacher.’ Keeping in mind the importance of the poet’s use of syntax (Stephens, 1992), the capitalisation of nature and teacher in this line signifies the importance the poet is placing on both these roles.

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