NAME : T.

RASHMI KAUSHALYA

REG;NO : DELT-N-2085-08

BATCH;NO : DELT-N-2085

SUBJECT : LIT

COURSE : DELT

LECTURER : SAMAN PADIDILIAN.

1.Introduction

Human and nature have collaborated since the men’s arrival to the earth. Nature became dominant ideology
through human life. In literature, nature always had a great place and many writers or poets used nature as a tool
to express human feelings. It reached to it’s peak in the early 19th century with romantic poety. Many poets like
William Wordsworth or Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote poems about nature and nature’s impression awoken on
humans. Nature was beginning of life for them and for many romantic thinkers. The solution according to
romantic poets was ‘’back to nature’’. Because nature is pure, innocent and begining of life. It was also a way
out of the fumes of the growing industrial centres for the new industrial rich. The Romantics highlighted the
healing power of the imagination, because they truly believed that it could enable people to get over with their
troubles and their circumstances.

2. Nature for Wordsworth, Blake and Coleridge

Wordsworth claimed that in his essay -wrote with Coleridge- ‘’Preface to Lyrical Ballad’’ that romantic poet is
different from common men. They know how to speak and how to transfer their feelings to common men via
nature. He believed in nature’s divine power. On the other hand Coleridge believed philosophical aspect of
nature. They both give human associations variety and add interest to natural objects. And they found harmony
in nature and human being. We can say nature was old point of view for human –because it was created before
humanity and possibly survive after humanity’s collapse.- but romantic poets turned the nature to new cultural
movement.

Romantic poet see things with different aspect. And decorate their ideas with words which can touch to the
readers’ hearth. Wordsworth’s idea to the nature was that human being can be pure while they are with nature.
In his poem ‘’The Solitary Reaper’’ portrayed nature of Highland Lass plainly and heartily. His poems’
language was plain for comman people to understand. Because nature and it’s beauty wasn’t just for aristocratic
class, it was for every human being.

Nature wasn’t just a subject to write for romantic poets. It was also solitude place for them to find relief. They
were in harmony with nature. And their aim was make readers participant to nature’s harmony. William
Wordsworth, in his poem ‘’I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’’ says;

‘’I wandered as a cloud

That floats on high o’er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.’’

In these lines imagery of nature is restful and gives peace to reader. However, daffodils are not just source of
inspiration, but also helper for poet to find his peace. Poets used solitude places to write their poem and to
portray their images to readers. This is why they could express their feelings with nature so perfectly, they were
part of the nature.
Aspect is important subject on poety. Feelings and effect of nature can be various for every person. Poetry
rouses up different feelings for different people. It is personal and unique. On nature, while Wordsworth
defended plain words and solitude –for comman men-, Blake mixtured nature with divinity in his poems. He
just didn’t write about beauty of nature, he wrote about troubles of men –and most important trouble of men;
creation of God.- He saw nature as a tool for human understatement of divinity. For instance, in his ‘Nurse’s
Song’’ poem from ‘’Songs and Experience’’ he says;

‘’Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down,

And the dews of night arise:

Your spring and your day are wasted in play,

And your winter and night in disguise.’’

The poem is not just about green meadows, it is also a warning for children from Nurse that the real world is
harsh when you grow old. Nature is like a tableau for William Blake to express his ideas on a poem. This is why
in his poem nature is not always a heavenly place to find peace, sometimes his tone is negative.

 On the other hand Samuel Taylor Coleridge used the conversational tone in his poems. Like Wordsworth, he
was like a storyteller. While Wordsworth used nature as a guidance to feelings and sorrows of human being,
Coleridge showed more story focused approach with nature. Most succesful poem of conversitional tone
tecnique is ‘’Frost at Midnight’’.

‘’The Frost performs its secret ministry,

Unhelped by any wind. The owlet’s cry

Came loud-and hark, again! Loud as before.’’

The poem begins with frosty night in Somerset and goes on with the relationship with frosty night and baby
who sleeping baby at the poet’s side. Coleridge blends child and nature and creates ‘’child of nature’’. In the
end poem starts as a natural imagery and ends with impress on child education.

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Conclusion

Nature became poetry’s language in Romantic Period for poets like Wordsworth or Coleridge. Nature told
stories with fashion of conversation poems by way of romantic poets. Nature gave inspiration and more than
that it gave solitude and peaceful place for poets and also humanity. Poets of that era saw nature as a tutor and
with it’s guidance they expressed feelings such as pain, love and joy.

Three major romantic poets; Wordsworth, Blake and Coleridge can seem like they followed same rule book
while they write their poems, but there are differences in their methods on nature. Wordsworth used nature as
sanctuary, Blake refered to divinity and creater of life –His famous poem ‘’Tiger’’ can be shown example to
questioning of creation.- and Coleridge mixed nature with life.