Wordsworth’s Conception Nature

                                                     Wordsworth’s Conception Nature

 The great giant of   the  English of  Romantic Revival, Wordsworth stands alone with his full-fledged philosophy and his new and original view of Nature. He was a true and tender lover of the tender aspects of Nature. He was a worshiper , a high-priest of the beauty of Nature. He looked upon it as a living personality and enjoyed its benign and delightful association. He discovered in it a divine spirit, a blissful spirit interpenetrating each and every object of Nature. This belief of Wordsworth known as mystical pantheism, finds expression in his famous poems ‘Tintern Abbey’ and ‘ The Prelude’. He spiritualised Nature and looked upon it as a great a moral teacher , a great educator of the senses and of the minds , a guardian , a great healer of wounds. He thought Nature can lead us from joy to joy ,’ ‘inform the mind that is within us ,so impress with quietness and beauty and so feed with lofty thoughts ‘. He discovered a unifying divine spirit/ power working through all the objects of Nature and keeping them in harmony. The same spirit ran through the heart of man and hence he found a profound harmony between man and Nature.

 The poet Wordsworth established a respective contact, a kind of communicative link with Nature. It was so because he used to dwell upon the moral influence of Nature on human mind and the need of man’s spiritual intercourse with her. The poet was greatly influenced by Hartley’s philosophy that association shapes our personality. The company of Nature, the poet likewise believed , shapes one’s moral self. So he thought – the touch of the pure and tender aspects of Nature can make one pure and holy. Thus , Nature meant a lot to Wordsworth and it is this philosophy of Nature with its manifold ramifications that occupies an independent status in his poetry.

In his childhood, the poet used to look upon the sights and sounds of Nature as his innocent playmate. He then wondered aimlessly about here and there wherever Nature led him and enjoyed simple carefree life in the open air. He then roamed about in the midst of Nature like a careless doe frisking over the mountain, and along the lonely streams and the deep rivers more with an attitude of reverence and fear than with a mood of love,. And his wanderings in Nature were his ‘glad animal movements’ giving him ‘the coarser pleasure of boyish days’.