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Q. Wordsworths poetry brings out his view that nature is conscious and shows the influence of nature

on men. Discuss with illustrations from the poems you have read.

Throughout Wordsworths work, nature provides the ultimate good influence on the human mind. All

manifestations of the natural world- from the highest mountain to the simplest flower-elicit noble,

elevated thoughts and passionate emotions in the people who observe these manifestations.

Wordsworth repeatedly emphasizes the importance of nature to an individuals intellectual and spiritual

development. A good relationship with nature helps the individual to connect to both the spiritual and

the social worlds. In such poems as the world is too much with uspeople became selfish and immoral

when they distance themselves from nature by living in cities. Humanitys innate empathy and nobility

of spirit becomes corrupted by artificial social conventions as well as by the squalor of city life. In

contrast, people who spend a lot of time in nature, such as laborers and farmers, retain the purity and

nobility of their souls. This is clearly seen in the pastoral poem Michael,in which Michaels son is a

good, obedient and hardworking lad as long as he lives in the rural areas with his parents. But when he

goes to the city to pay off his fathers debt, he becomes corrupted and ruins himself.

In Tintern Abbeythrough his personal experience, Wordsworth expresses his philosophy of nature and

some relationships between man and nature. The subject of Tintern Abbeyis memory- specifically

childhood memories of the communion with natural beauty. Both generally and specifically, this subject

is very important in Wordsworths work, also appearing in Ode on intimations of immortality. The ode

shows Wordsworths philosophy of preexistence of soul; the soul in relation with nature in childhood.

The poet is very much exalted to enjoy the natural surroundings of the place in Tinterns Abbey.

Nature provides solace for man. It lightens his burden of humanity. The beauties of nature lull the

human passion in a state of repose so that the poet may become a living soul a pure soul which can

penetrate the corporeal forms of things and see into the life of things. It is through a power in nature

then that the poet transcends natures material forms and contemplates a higher more divinestate of

being. He develops an extraordinary insight as a result of the tranquilizing influence of the nature. By

means of this insight he is in a position to understand the meaning, purpose and significance of the

Universe. As Wordsworth mentioned in the preface of his monumental literary collaboration with S.T.

Coleridge, poetry results from the spontaneous overflowof emotions, and this is achieved only through

a communion with nature.