MAN OF NATURE

A man of nature

William Wordsworth composed a brilliant poem that captures many elements of nature and of the Romanticism.  Wordsworth employs the everyday language of men, returned his imagination to make Tintern Abbey a story of Romanticism in nature.

Wordsworth is a man of nature who believes that nature is a part of beauty and man’s imagination.  He says:  “these farms of beauty have not been to me, as is a landscape to blind man’s eyes:  but oft in lonely room, and mind the din of towns and cities, I have owed to them, in an hour of weariness, sensation sweet; fell in the blood, and fell in the heart, and passing even into my purer mind with tranquil restoration:-feeling too of unremembered pleasure” (25)

Class note:

Wordsworth Romantic poem, influence the modern society with emotion, feelings, and nature.  Wordsworth believes that poetry should be written in simple language for everyday man to understand. Wordsworth is an imaginative person; he writes with compassion, he uses musical theme to maintain the flow of his language.  Wordsworth lays out for himself the creativity that is tied into the modern world of romantic poem.

Wordsworth says, “On the best potion of a good man’s life; his little, nameless,    unremembered acts of kindness and of love.  Nor less, I trust, to them I might have owed another gift, of aspect sublime; that blessed mood, in which the burden of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world lightened- that serene and blessed mood, in which the affections gentle leads on.(40)

            The poet is giving his reader a view of what he thinks about nature and man, the