CONCLUSION:

The Victorian poetry is divided into two main groups of poetry: The High Victorian Poetry and The Pre-Raphaelites. The Victorian poetry does not have the topic “The Love and Worship of Nature” in his poems as the Romantics had in their poetry. It is because the Romantics loved Nature and it was shown through their poems adoring and blessing Nature as if it were God. Therefore, we will not relate this topic with the Victorians, but we will talk about that Nature that the Victorian poets refer to in the descriptions of places inside the poems. Examples of these poems that have the Nature theme was Tennyson that made references to Nature in the poem “Song: ‘The winds, as at their hour of birth”. Another was Browning that made another references to Nature in the poem “Fra Lippo Lippi”.

In the second group, the Pre- Rafaelist have examples of Nature in Algernon Charles Swinburne in one of his poems “By the North Sea”. It deals with the theme of nature landscape. Some features can be related with Wordsworth’s poem “Daffodils”. Another theme is the endless and the eternity of human life, in contrast with the vision of romantic poets, which considered nature as an endless place.

The common features in Georgian poetry were romanticism, sentimentality and hedonism. So, Georgian poets tried to react and to follow the lead shown by Wordsworth a century earlier which Nature was an obsession for the poets: it was used to explore other issues and as a means of communication.

In the thirties we can not find the theme of love and worship of nature and neither seems to have played an important role. All of them are concerned with topics like war, community and social (in)justice due to the fact that the poets in this time are more preoccupied to the politic and social life that in other themes like love or nature,

In The Movement we can not find any romantic characteristics in general because this is a movement against the romantics and all their characteristics. But in some poet we can see features about nature in their poems.

Is not the same in the Group because The Movement started as a group against the romantics and this one not appear in this way. They are a group of people that argue about their own poetry in meeting in different cities that lead by Philip Hobsbaum. They wrote about own experiences and autobiography, so, in their poetry we do not find nature in these poems.

In the Extremist Art Poets we focused our attention on Edward James Hughes, an English poet and children’s tale writer, who have Romantic characteristics of Love and worship of Nature. After exploring his poetry we can find some nature features because his work is famous for its symbolism, passion, and shadowy natural images. An example of his work was Hawk in the Rain.

In the Mersey Beat movement we can find “Nature” in a Brian Patten’s poem called “Burning genius” where he talks about the exact nature of inhuman suffering. And we can also find the theme in a Roger McGough’s poem called “Soil” in which he gives visions of the patience of earth, nature, time.

If we make a line from the beginnings of the poetry until today maybe in all period appear in some grade the theme of Nature. I think that this is because Nature is the first thing in world before that other thing that you can imagine. The Nature is something that for the people it is necessary in some way in our life. If we read between lines in all of these periods that in these works are mentioned in some way we can find something of Nature, but maybe in some of they this theme are not relevant so by this I said that it not appear. Although this, Nature many times appears only as a comparison between something that a poet are describing and a thing that we can know in nature.

In my opinion the nature is the most part of the periods appears only as a resort and not as a theme.

Ø The other parts of the paper:

· Introduction

· Victorian Poetry à Inma Sanchis

· Aesthetic Pre- Rafaelism à Annalisa Garofalo

· Georgian Poets à Tania Sendra

· Modernism à Ani Tadevousy

· New Romantics in the Forties à Elena Mármol

· Modernist Tradition à Sara Lozano

· The Extremist Art Poets à Sara Lozano

· The British Poetry Revival à Mº Aranzazu Sarrió

· The Mersey Beat à Mº Aranzazu Sarrió

Academic year 2006/2007
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