Posted at May 13, 2020
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Romantic Poets and Nature


Romantic poets are known for their appreciation of natural beauty. They pay tribute to nature in every way. Especially, Keats and Wordsworth play a significant role in this regard as they understand the complex phenomena of nature and pen them down in the form of rhythmical poetry. Keats has made use of comparatively complex language to express his feelings about nature whereas Wordsworth pays heed to simpler language to make the beauty of nature accessible to every person who reads his poems. Although romantic poets are known by the way, they pay homage to the beauty of nature, but Keats and Wordsworth excel in this regard as they understand the essence of natural beauty and wish to pass it on to others through their poetical expressions. Keats’s Ode to Nightingale and Wordsworth’s Lines Written in Early Spring are the best examples as they manifest the poets’ aim of making nature a beauty queen and compelling others to see nature from their inward eye.  

Keats’s Ode to Nightingale is a manifestation of Keats’s understanding of humanity and the spirit of nature. By paying attention to many details and expressive words, Keats masterfully demonstrates his deep connection with feelings. He answers the question of why he is considered one of the greatest poets of the 19th century. Keats’ art is expressed when he captures nightingale’s image and writes an ode to it telling the audience how extraordinarily he portrays something really common as something worth addressing. He gives a deeper meaning to the words of his poem, which captures the senses of all readers. Keats took advantage of this beauty to create the central theme of one of his remarkable poems, “Ode to a Nightingale”He expresses the delight of listening to Nightingale’s Song. The beautiful song of Nightingale reminds him of his death poet singing in all five senses.  Beauty makes him realize the very fact that everyone has to face the bucket and that life is not eternal. The profundity of Nightingale’s song compels the poet to realize the mortality of the human race. This is how Keats’s inward eye sees different lessons in different aspects of nature. He aspires to escape from the shackles of this world because he has to join the nightingale in its song to be eternal like the eternal beauty of nightingale’s song.  

In Lines Written in Early Spring, Wordsworth sits in a small forest and listens to the birds singing around him. But even if the song of the bird has provoked an exhilarating idea, it is even more obscure. Wordsworth admires the primrose flowers, the blue periwinkle, the green of the wooded area in which it is found, and the bird that surrounded it. The birds and the branches of the tree seem to exist in the world of desires – at least Wordsworth decides that it must be said that this is the case. It’s natural and natural. If this is the work of God, that’s the reason. Wordsworth finishes by repeating his dissatisfaction with human beings. 


In Wordsworth’s poem, the natural world is described as favorable and agreeable: the nature of the teeth and nails received by Tennyson for more than half a century is beyond doubt as a result of geological discoveries. Wordsworth supports the emergence of the vision of nature sent from heaven. Charles’s grandfather, Wordsworth’s friend, Dr. Darwin, published a book called The Temple of Nature in 1803, an interesting publication just five years after “The Rows Written in Spring.” – A Darwinian (the other vision of nature) has been proposed, including a couple. “The axis of death is ejected from the arms of Fame and/or the place of the massacre is a warrior world!” In short, Wordsworth’s “Spring” is not some kind of implicit failure of humanity, but a sort of drawing of the natural world of birds and flowers as a peaceful coincidence and joy, and this is not such a model. As if to say that Wordsworth has denied their colleagues by starving their colleagues of poverty and exploitation, is that right? The brutal violence returns (the poem was written in the context of the Napoleonic war that followed the terrorists) – it is about limiting the poem and making it unique for its time. The poem becomes timeless in its ambiguity. 

It is interesting to notice that both the poems are ambassadors of natural aesthetics; one talks about immortality and the other talks about the initiation of life. Both are embarked upon the same theme of life although one draws the attention of the reader towards the end of life and the other does the same for the beginning and colors of life. Nothing is absolute, but nature’s absoluteness cannot be undermined once Keats and Wordsworth hold their pens in their hands. Their tribute to nature and its manifestation and beyond praise because they advocate what they want to advocate with such a finesse that the reader is left mesmerized by the theme they adopt. That is why the significance of nature increases multifold in the life of the reader. In a way, both the poems sing about nature although one takes a gloomy side and the other one takes a brighter side. Keats, being an experience of grief and lover of nature cannot stop himself from expressing and merging both the entities together with such expertise that the reader appreciates even the gloomy side with a happy face because enjoyment is ensured throughout the literary pieces.  On the contrary, Wordsworth sings and dances happily in the happiness of welcoming the season of love and life. His celebration and plain language not only attract the reader towards nature but also, it makes the reader ponder upon the significant elements of nature.  

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