Name: Vora Hirva pSem: 2Roll No: 09The Romantic LiteratureWordsworth as a Nature poet

Nature and Love or Romance

The Prelude: “ a love of nature can lead to a love of humankind.

The central Themes: Imaginative power of the poet, The narrator’s development as a poet and spiritual crises.

Three ingredients of his creativity: Soul, imagination of natural phenomena and knowledge of underlying principals of things.

His philosophy about Nature.

The Beneficial Influence of Nature

The Power of Human Mind

The relationship between the mind and poetry

The spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling that recollected in tranquility

Five important stages: (1) Sensation (2) Recollection (3) Contemplation (4) Recreation (5) Composition

Wordsworth’s views as receiver and creator both.

And 'tis my faith that every flower Enjoys the air it breathes.

The birds around me hopped and played,

Their thoughts I cannot measure: -- But the least motion which they made, It seemed a thrill of pleasure. The

budding twigs spread out their fan, To catch the breezy air; And I must think, do all I can, That there was pleasure there.

If this belief from heaven be sent, If such be Nature's holy plan, Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

Lines written in Early Spring

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