The document discusses William Wordsworth's treatment of nature in his poetry. It notes that Wordsworth viewed nature as both objective and subjective - he saw natural scenes as creators that could be directly experienced through the senses, forming an alliance between one's inner and outer life. The document provides two examples of Wordsworth poems that exemplify this - "Upon Westminster Bridge", where the city wears a bright garment in the smokeless air, and "Lucy", where the difference after her death is emphasized.

1. Treatment of Nature in
Wordsworth's poetry
E -C-201: The Romantic Literature
Prepared by: Namrata M. Vyas
M.A.- 1 Sem – 2
Roll No- 20
Department of English
Bhavnagar university
Bhavnagar

2. Age of romanticism
 Term (18th-19th)
 Revolution
 New Theories:
Emphasis on emotion
Nature and Human life
Personal experience
Imagination
Mythology, Fantastical
Gothic
Social and political idealism

3. What is poetry
 Art of employing words
 Illusion and imagination
 Arrangement of Pseudo statement >Paradox
and Irony > Ambiguity
 For words worth,
“ Poetry is a spontaneous overfl of powerful
ow
Feelings”

4. William Wordsworth as a “Nature” Writer
 His
Literary
*Physical environment Work
*The Mind of man

5. Treatment of Nature
Objective Subjective
receive-
Creator
Natural Scene Sensory experience
Alliance
Inner life Outer life
 Directness and simplicity
 Loves to be alone but never with nature

6. Example
Upon Westminster Bridge Lucy
A sight so touching in its majesty
this city now doth, like a A maid when there were none to
garment, wear praise, and very few to love
All bright and glittering in the But she is in her grave, and, oh, the
smokeless air difference to me!
No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees

7. Literature is intended to last