Nature was a leading theme in the time of Romanticism period. William Wordsworth, a famous English Romantic poet, was most often portrayed as a vicar of nature. His approach to nature clearly distinguished from the other great poets of nature. This essay will analyse Wordsworth’s development as a poet of nature referring to his poem “Tintern Abbey”, which was written in the edition of Lyrical Ballads in the year 1798. The poem commences with the speaker’s assertion that he is revisiting the Wye after five years as evident in, “Five years have passed; five summers, with the length of five long winters! And again I hear these waters…” (page 8). As a youth, Wordsworth indeed visited the Wye during a tour from London to North Wales in 1793. At that time he was an apprehensive, adrift and disillusioned young boy. Wordsworth spent his formative years of life in the hub of nature’s exquisite surroundings as proven in, …from what I was when first I came among these hills; when like a roe I bounded o’er the mountains , by the sides of deep rivers, the lonely streams, wherever nature led… (page 9). Without having any intellectual and logical correlation, he loved nature with a desire which was all physical. He visited the hills and the vales to roam and play …show more content…
This was illustrated by “coarser pleasures” (page 9) of his youth. The wonderful views and appearances of the objects of nature stimulated his sensations and made him very enthusiastic. In these lines, “more like a man flying from something that he dreads than one who sought the thing he loved” (page 9), it appears that Wordsworth seemed to be scuttling away from something he loved. Probably he loved nature and instead of hounding it, he was running away from it because of his unintellectual appreciation of nature. Thus, as a youth, Wordsworth did not find any concealed meaning of