TO NATURE

SAMUEL TAYLOR
COLERIDGE
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SAMUEL TAYLOR

COLERIDGE

1772-1834
ENGLISH POET, CRITIC, PHILOSOPHER
MAJOR POEMS- KUBLA KHAN, RIME OF THE ANCIENT
MARINER, CHRISTABEL
MAJOR FORCCE BEHIND THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT

 TO NATURE
It may indeed be fantasy when I
Essay to draw from all created things
Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings;
And trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie
Lessons of love and earnest piety.
So let it be; and if the wide world rings
In mock of this belief, it brings
Nor fear, nor grief, nor vain perplexity.
So will I build my altar in the fields,
And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be,
And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields
Shall be the incense I will yield to Thee,
Thee only God! and thou shalt not despise
Even me, the priest of this poor sacrifice.

ROMANTIC MOVEMENT
Stared with the publication of Biographia Literaria
Main proponents : Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William
Wordsworth
Features : Nationalism
Love for nature
Nature as a guide, mother and God
Love for beauty

SUMMARY
"To Nature" is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. In this
poem, Coleridge speaks of how he loves nature, and because of this he
has learned something about love and piety. He goes on to compare
nature to God or a spirit or at the very least a church. He goes on to say
that he will put his alter in the fields and compares himself to a priest.
This poem is written as one stanza with fourteen lines. It is
rhymed as ABBAACCDEDEDFF and is written in iambic-pentameter

vocabulary
Fantasy-/fantsi,/- the faculty or activity
of imagining impossible or improbable
things
Heartfelt-/htflt/- (of a feeling or its
expression) deeply and strongly felt
Cling-/kl/ - hold on tightly to.
Piety-/pti/ -the quality of being
religious or reverent.

 Perplexity-/pplksti/ -inability to deal with or

understand something.
Incense-/nsns/ -perfume with incense or a similar
fragrance
Despise-/dspz/ -feel contempt or a deep
repugnance for
Sacrifice-/sakrfs/ -give up (something valued) for
the sake of other considerations.

imageries
Altar- fields
Dome- blue sky
Incense- fragrance of wild flowers

activities
Prepare posters related to the beauty of nature
Draw a scenery.
Find out the rhyming words in the poem

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