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A 9 page research paper arguing that Wordsworth's poems frequently centered around the theme of nature. Examples are provided from 'Tintern Abbey,' 'To The Same Flower,' 'Michael,' and other works to support the writer's thesis. It is concluded that Wordsworth was particularly interested in the 'non-human' aspect of life and illustrated such throughout his works. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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new tradition in poetry. Much of Wordsworths easy flow of conversational blank verse has true lyrical power and grace, and his finest work is permeated by a sense of
the human relationship to external nature that is religious in its scope and intensity. To Wordsworth, God was everywhere manifest in the harmony of nature, and he felt deeply the
kinship between nature and the soul of humankind. An impressively large number of poems by William Wordsworth have an element of pure nature, that is,
nature existing in its own glory, in its own right, apart from the demands that the poets relationship with it make on it, but it should be stressed that it
is only an element; it is relationship between poet and nature in each of the poems when considered as wholes. It was he who said that poetry was the "spontaneous
overflow of powerful feelings" (Harper 23). He also said that poets should describe simple scenes in everyday words, that they should be true to nature, and that they should
use imagination to create an atmosphere (Harper 23-24). "Tintern Abbey," is the most enthusiastic, and probably the most complete celebration of the myth of nature.
The popular conception of Wordsworths attitude towards nature is that of a simple-minded contemplation of "natures holy plan" (Selincourt 5). But it is clear to me now that this generalization
will never do. There is, in fact, a range of attitudes toward nature expressed in Wordsworths poems. In some places he praises natural scenery for its external beauty;
in many-probably most-places he stands in awe of the Divine Spirit that rolls through the created order, giving it life, form, even personality; in some places Wordsworth expresses great antagonism
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