A POET’S LOVE OF NATURE

 

                A POET’S LOVE OF NATURE

“Nature” is defined as the phenomena of the physical world which includes plants , animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations.

The phrase “Mother Nature” stands for natural resources, the world, the universe, the cosmos, landscape, scenery, etc. Lovers of nature are called naturalists.

Being in nature has positive effects on people’s physical, mental, moral,  emotional, religious and spiritual health.

In English literature William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is  most famous  for the poetry of nature. He found the delightful and enlightening  beauty of nature everywhere ----in flowers, meadows, woods, mountains, stars, the setting suns and the glories of various seasons.

As the following extract from his poem Tintern Abbey indicates in Nature he found the anchor of his purest thoughts.

“A motion and a spirit, that impels

All thinking things, all objects of all thought,      

And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still

A lover of the meadows and the woods

And mountains ; and of all that we behold

From this green earth ; of all the mighty world

Of eye, and ear, both what they half create

And what perceive ; well pleased to recognise

In Nature and the language of the sense

The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse,

The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul

Of all my moral being.

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G.R.Kanwal

21 August 2024