Nature Wordsworth Beauty
In the readings of Romanticism that we have read, I have noticed a common theme that shows the appreciation of the beauties of nature. In some of the readings you would have never thought that that was what they were doing unless you really paid attention. I found a sense of appreciation for nature in two writings by Wordsworth. Wordsworth was known for writing about nature. He wrote many poems about it and sometimes they were in sonnets like The World Is Too Much with Us and sometimes they were just regular poems like Nutting.
Wordsworth shows a passion for nature in The World Is Too Much with Us. Wordsworth seems angry when writing this and accuses people of today of loosing their connection with nature and anything meaningful. He talks about “the world is too much with us,” “we lay waste our powers,” and he says that “little we see in nature is ours.” He goes on to say “we are out of tune”. In this writing he talks about how in today's society we just really do not stop and smell the roses anymore. We take for granted what we have right here in nature. “We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!” We have given everything that we knew about for something new. He shows us that we need to wake up and realize how beautiful our earth really is before it is too late. God created such a magnificent earth but we do not take the time to appreciate his beautiful craftsmanship. We are too busy trying to make money and stay on top of the world and we do not really see how we even got this far. Without nature we would not have as many things as we do today. I agree with Wordsworth and we do need to stop and enjoy this world before it is too late. Especially right now with global warming as it is. If it is true about what people say about global warming, we might loose the beauty of the earth as we know it. If we do not try and stop it, it is going to be too late for all of us.
Also reading this sonnet more than once, you see at the end Wordsworth brings up two ancient names, Proteus and Triton. Seeing as they were Greek gods, I feel that he wishes that he could go back in time and live when everything was in the beauty of nature. He says at one point “I'd rather be a pagan suckled in a creed outworn.” I am not quite sure but I am pretty sure that a pagan is not something that someone wants to be. He obviously wanted to live back with the Greek gods just because they were part of nature. “Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn”, this is a statement that is said at the end that makes me think this. I think he is trying to dream that he can see them while looking out over the ocean when he was writing this.
Another writing that shows passion for nature is Wordsworth's Nutting. This passage is about a little boy who was referred to as a nutter which means he gathered nuts. Wordsworth describes vividly various aspects of nature. We know this because of statements like: “through beds of matted fern and tangled thickets,” and “where not a broken bough drooped with its withered leaves.” He also talks about the flowers under the trees and the sparkling, rippling water. “Among the flowers, and with the flowers I played”. Wordsworth describes the forest scene with passionate words which allows the reader to visualize the untainted picture he is painting. He says in one part of the poem: “A virgin scene!—A little while I stood, Breathing with such suppression of the heart”. I think this means that sense nobody has ever been here before except for him he knows that it is the first time that anybody has ever seen it. Therefore is makes it a virgin scene.
But as we keep reading the poem we realize that he only gets to enjoy the beauty of nature for a few moments because he ends up destroying it himself. He destroys this beautiful place just so he can finish his job. He describes this when he says, “then up I rose, and dragged to earth both branch and bough, with crash and merciless ravage: and the shady nook of hazels, and the green and mossy bower, deformed and sullied, patiently gave up.” It is strange when he ends up destroying nature because the whole poem is about that. You can tell at the end of the poem though he gets upset knowing that he destroyed a perfectly good part of nature just to gather nuts for his caregiver.
There is a huge difference in the two poems that we have read that he wrote but that's a good thing to me. It shows that he does not just get stuck on one part of nature and writes about it over and over again, he takes it into different perspectives and writes. It shows that he has an interest in what people are going to read and not get bored. I have tried to read up on his works and everything that I see that talks about them says that he was angry at the world for not living in his kind of world. I think that this means it is because not everybody wanted to live in nature but he thought they should.
I am not that good at understanding literature, especially when it comes to poems. But I do know that these two readings deal greatly with nature. It opens my eyes and helps me to see that I can understand what I am reading because it helps me imagine that I am the one that is seeing all these beautiful things that are created. He puts into perspective that we need to take more time and enjoy nature now before man kind messes it up big time. These two poems really do show the appreciation of the beauties of nature.
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