Introduction
The theme of this essay
is: Worship and Nature in Romanticism; we have analysed five important
authors of this period, such as: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley,
Byron and Keats. We have written down of their most important poems
linked to this theme and stressed the most relevant features, for
instance, in Blake’s poems we can notice his use of pictures that
complete written words and contribute to the complexity of his works;
moreover, his conviction that only through imagination man can reach
knowledge; as far as worship and nature concerns, god is understood as the creator of the
universe, one being in whom good an evil converge. Whereas Nature is a
representation of the fact of human fall, “He thought Nature was part of
the earthly world, he was aware of her beauty and
harmony”.
As regards Wordsworth in
relation to his poem “The prelude”, the most important features are:
thinking of Nature itself in terms of the sublime and beautiful
associated to his parents, the relationship between Nature and his
childhood, acknowledging the powerfulness of imagination and the
subjectivity and freedom of the poetive creation; in addition to this,
to Wordsworth: “Nature codifies the social apparatus while it appears to
dismantle it”.
Coleridge has been analysed in
comparison with Wordswoth and analysing his poem “Frost at Midnight”, for instance, the effect of nature on the
imagination, the relationship between children and the natural world, the contrast
between this liberating country setting and city, and the relationship between adulthood and
childhood.
The
Shelley’s poem is “Queen Mab”; the poem is an ode to Nature and he talks
about Nature as it was God, he loves Nature, in his opinion human beings
cannot control
Nature but they depend on
it; The last two poets are: Byron and Keats; Byron reflects his
opinion about Nature and worship in his poems: “English Bards and
Scotch Reviewers” and “She Walks in Beauty”, whereas as far as Keats concerns, the poem
choosen are two fragments: “A fragment of Ode to a Nightingale” and “A fragment of To Autumn”;
Keats declares that any contact with nature defines the happiness thought the nature itself,
and in the two poems the author compares the eternal and
transcendental nature
with the physical world.