What Do These Poets of Nature Think of Nature?
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2022-06-15
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In the past thirty years, ecocriticism has emerged as a term that is becoming increasingly important in the study of art and literature. This is especially relevant today, in a world that is so rapidly changing, and where the focus is more on industrialising nature and less on admiring nature for the powerful and inspiring presence it can be. Romanticism had already held the relationship between nature and humanity in high regard. Therefore, this thesis covers two prominent nineteenth-century British Romantic poets, William Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelley and study the portrayal and the importance of nature in their poetry. This is analysed from the perspective of what they view the poet’s role to be in their writing, as well as how they actually use that role and execute it with the inclusion of nature in their writing.
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