This PPT is based on Presentation of Semester1 Submitted to DoE, MKBU. Paper no. 103 Literature of the Romantics and topic is The Element of Nature in Worthworth's Poem.

1. ● Name: Rajeshvariba Rana
● Roll No. : 20
● Enrollment No. : 4069206420220023
● Semester: 1st
● Paper No. : 103
● Paper Code: 22394
● Paper Name: Literature of the Romantics
● Topic: The Element of Nature in Wordsworth’s Poem
● Submitted to: Smt. S.B.Gardi,Department of English, MKBU
● E-mail: rhrana148@gmail.com

2. Overview:
● Introduction
● Four Stages in Tintern Abbey
● His Philosophy of Nature
● Element of Nature in The World Is Too Much With Us
● Quotation
● Ecocriticism
● Chipko Movement
● Work Cited

3. Introduction:
William Wordsworth as the most Celebrated
and Influential Romantic English Poet and
as the greatest English Poet after
Shakespeare and Milton.
In 1798,at the age of 28,Wordsworth
claimed that he had long been a worshipper
of Nature. For many readers he became,and
for some is still,its high priest.(Kiran)
He suggests that a poem originates in a
recollection "of a splendour in the objects of
sense."(Hodges)

4. Wordsworth's images and metaphors mix natural scenery
, religious symbolism , and the relics of the poet's rustic
childhood cottages , hedgerows , orchards , and other
places where humanity intersects with nature .
Children form an intense bond with nature , so much so
that they appear to be a part of the natural world , rather
than a part of the human , social world . Their
relationship to nature is passionate . As children age and
reach maturity , they lose this connection but gain an
ability to feel emotions . Through the power of the human
mind , particularly memory, adults can recollect the
connection to their youth .(Kiran)

5. Wordsworth's attitude towards Nature can be clearly
differentiated from that of the other great poets of Nature .
Four Stages according to his Poem Tintern Abbey.
His Philosophical aspect of Spirituality.
Third stage lead Fourth stage
● Old Age- Adopt the Spiritualism of Nature,he sees a bigger Soul
running threw all the objects of Nature awaiting single hall.
● As a Child he enjoyed Nature with
the help of Sense of Seen,Hearing,
Taste, Touch and Smell.
● Intellectualization helps him to Think
upon the Object of Nature.
● At Middle age of his life He loves
Nature for the sake of Nature.

6. Elements of Nature:
“Nature are divided into Internal nature and
External nature. External nature refers to the
universe that are not made by people and
it is controlled by divine power whereas Internal
nature is refers to the usual way that
a human or animal behaves or it’s part of their
character or basic qualities of a thing.”
(Safdarian)

7. Lines of The World Is Too Much With Us
By William Wordsworth:
“The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers”
(Wordsworth)

8. I. Sea Literal meaning
- Sea is large place of the world
- Sea consist of water containing salt
Figurative meaning
Sea as something unpredictable
- Sea as mysterious of thing
II. Moon Literal meaning
- Moon is pure satellite of earth,
- Moon cannot be separated with earth.
Figurative meaning
- Moon as spirit of people
- Moon also use as place for someone
feeling
lonely
Element of Nature in The World Is Too Much With Us:

9. III. Wind Literal meaning
- One of the five basic element nature
Figurative meaning
- Symbolize a problem that could be a
spirit to face.
IV
.
Sleeping
Flowers
Literal meaning
- A plant with lack of wood
Figurative meaning
- A figurative speech, an ornament of style
- Something calm, peaceful, quiet
V. Lea Literal meaning
- An open field, like a meadow
Figurative meaning
- Represented a land(Rahayu)

10. Wordsworth had his passion of Nature fixed in
his blood. It was a necessity of his being, like
that of a mulberry leaf to the silkworm and
through his commerce with Nature did he live
and breathe.
(DEVLIN)
Wordsworth's passion for Nature is well known as
De Quincey Puts it:

11. Ecocriticism:
“Ecocriticism is the study of the relationship between
literature and the physical environment. It takes an
earth centered approach to literary studies.”(Glotfelty
and Fromm) - Cheryll Glotfelty
The central premise of an
ecocritical perspective is that
human culture is connected to
the physical world , and
humans inevitably affect and
are affected by the natural
world.

12. Ecocriticism, ultimately a form of environmental
advocacy, is primarily a critical and literary tool, a kind
of reading designed to expose and facilitate analysis of
a text's orientation both to the world it imagines and to
the world in which it takes shape, along with the
conditions and contexts that affect that orientation,
whatever it might be.(KERN)
The nature of representation is one of
the chief concerns of literary theory,
but the preponderance of theory is
something else ecocritics dislike
about current literary studies.
(Phillips)

13. We are considered Land as our mother. Land is
able to produce crop and mother of nature.
Land is owned by man.

14. The Chipko Movement was a non-violent
agitation in 1973 that was aimed at protection
and conservation of trees, but, perhaps, it is best
remembered for the collective mobilisation of
women for the cause of preserving forests, which
also brought about a change in attitude
regarding their own status in society. The
uprising against the felling of trees and
maintaining the ecological balance originated in
Uttar Pradesh’s Chamoli district (now
Uttarakhand) in 1973 and in no time spilled onto
other states in north India. The name of the
movement ‘Chipko’ comes from the word
’embrace’, as the villagers hugged the trees and
encirled them to prevent being hacked.

15. (Kohli and Singh)

16. However, not many people know that the
original Chipko Movement dates back to
the 18th century and was started by
Rajasthan’s Bishnoi community. The
incident has been etched in the annals of
history for the sacrifice of a group of
villagers, who led by a lady named Amrita
Devi, laid down their lives while
protecting trees from being felled on the
orders of the King of Jodhpur. After this
incident, the king, in a royal decree,
banned cutting of trees in all Bishnoi
villages.

17. Work Cited :
DEVLIN, D. D. De Quincey, Wordsworth and the Art of Prose. PALGRAVE MACMILLAN,LONDON
, 1983.
Glotfelty, Cheryll, and Harold Fromm. The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology.
University of Georgia Press, 2009.
Hodges, Elizabeth Perry. “THE LANGUAGE OF NATURE: WORDSWORTH AND WILLIAM
CARLOS WILLIAMS.” ELibrary.ru, ELibrary.ru, 1981, https://scholar.google.at/.
KERN, ROBERT. “Ecocriticism: What Is It Good For?” Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and
Environment, vol. 7, no. 1, 2000, pp. 9–32. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44087363.
Accessed 17 Oct. 2022.
Kohli, Svabhu, and Viplov Singh. “45th Anniversary of the Chipko Movement2018.” Google,
Google, 26 Mar. 2018, https://www.google.com/doodles/45th-anniversary-of-the-chipko-
movement.

18. Kiran, Subh. “Wordsworth as a Nature Poet.” Academia.edu, Www.irjmsh.com, 29 July 2016,
https://www.academia.edu/27363863/Wordsworth_as_a_Nature_Poet.
Phillips, Dana. “Ecocriticism, Literary Theory, and the Truth of Ecology.” New Literary History, vol.
30, no. 3, 1999, pp. 577–602. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20057556. Accessed 17 Oct.
2022.
Rahayu, Atika Rose. THE ELEMENT OF NATURE IN WILLIAM WORDSWORTH’S SELECTED
POEMS: A SEMANTIC STUDY. 2018, http://eprints.unram.ac.id/8020/1/JURNAL%20ATIKA.pdf.
Safdarian, Khadijeh. 2015. Element of Nature in Emma by Jane Austen. Malayer
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Wordsworth, William. “The World Is Too Much with Us by William...” Poetry Foundation, Poetry
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