The environmental ethic in Wordsworth's poetry
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Knight, LeonardDate
1995Publisher
Bilkent University
Language
English
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Abstract
Wordsworth's poetry, with its emphasis on the independent
existence and consciousness of nature , has a distinctive place in
the Romantic movement. His interest in the external world is not,
of course, totally new and original. He prefers to take man, nature
and society as the main sources and subjects of his poetry.
However, the way Words worth handles his themes is revolutionary
and unique. Nature, for him, is an in dependent and self - sufficient
presence having its own consciousness and the ref ore it is treated
exclusively in various parts of his poetry. Man, like other beings,
belongs to the larger family of nature in terms of both his
individual and social existence. In this context, Words worth's
poetry functions as an insistent reminder that man ought to adapt
himself as well as his society to the broader order of nature.