Wordsworth and His Love for Nature

Wordsworth and His Love for Nature

This article explores Wordsworth and his love for nature with reference to his works. As a poet of Nature, Wordsworth stands supreme. He is “a worshipper of Nature”: Nature’s devotee or high-priest. Nature occupies in his poems a separate or independent status and is not treated in a casual or passing manner. Tintern Abbey is a poem with Nature as its theme.

Wordsworth sincerely believed that in town life men had forgotten nature and that they had been punished for it. Constant social intercourse had dissipated their energy and talents had dissipated their energy. One of his sonnets is eloquent of this. idea:

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;—
Little we see in Nature that is ours;

Four Stages of Wordsworth’s love of Nature

First stage

In the first stage Wordsworth loved the outward appearances of Nature, and her grandeur in colour and beauty. He admired the form and external features.

Second stage

But the external features of the land, the sea, the sky, the sun, and the moon, were not all the sources of joy to him. “Wordsworth is one of the world’s most loving, penetrative, and thoughtful poets of Nature. He found much of his greater joy in the presence of her calm, her beauty, her external revelations of a Divine hand. For Nature possesses a soul, a conscious existence, an ability to feel joy and love. In the Lines Written in Early Spring, he says:

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

In the Immortality Ode, he incorporates this belief in the lines :

The moon doth with delight
Look round her when the heavens are bare.

Third stage

But what was more, he not only conceived that Nature was alive. He believed it had one living soul, which entering into flower, stream or mountain, gave them each a soul of their own. Between this spirit in nature and the mind of man there was pre-arranged harmony which enabled nature to communicate its own thoughts to man, and man to reflect upon them, until an absolute union between them was established.”

And it was his belief that man makes himself miserable by tearing himself away from the heart of Nature—by waging a foolish strife with Nature.

Fourth stage

This brooding communion with Nature brought him much wealth of moral illustration; and this he communicated in poetic language for the benefit of the spiritual side in the human nature. The poet-philosopher considered it a mission of his life to be teacher of mankind. Many of the smaller poems are written with the avowed object of teaching mankind the truth that his subjective contemplation revealed to his own mind.  They include the Lesser Celandine, The Fountain, Two April Mornings.

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