Wordsworth Sincerity towards Man and Nature

Abstract

William Wordsworth’s attitude to nature and man can be clearly differentiated from that of the other great poets of Nature. He did not prefer the stormy and wild aspects of Nature like Lord Byron, or the shifting and changeful aspects of the sea and the sky like P.B. Shelley, or the purely sensuous in Nature like John Keats. It was his special characteristic to concern himself, note with the strange and remote aspects of the earth, and sky, but Nature in her ordinary familiar everyday moods. He did not recognise the ugly side of Nature ’red in tooth and claws’ as Tennyson did. Wordsworth stressed upon the moral influence of Nature and the need of man’s spiritual discourse with her.

William Wordsworth’s attitude to nature and man can be clearly differentiated from that of the other great poets of Nature. He did not prefer the stormy and wild aspects of Nature like Lord Byron, or the shifting and changeful aspects of the sea and the sky like P.B. Shelley, or the purely sensuous in Nature like John Keats. It was his special characteristic to concern himself, note with the strange and remote aspects of the earth, and sky, but Nature in her ordinary familiar everyday moods. He did not recognise the ugly side of Nature ’red in tooth and claws’ as Tennyson did. Wordsworth stressed upon the moral influence of Nature and the need of man’s spiritual discourse with her.