Therefore, this study is an attempt to focus on Wordsworth's selected poems in the light of Ecocriticism in order to shed light on the poet's cautious views about the interdependence of man and Nature and purge Wordsworth of the unjust labels tagged to him as a self-centered poet. In other words, his views about Nature and his poems seek to heal the long-forgotten wounds of Nature in the hope of reaching unification between man and Nature. His fame lies in the general belief that he has been viewed as a Nature poet who viewed Nature superior to humans. His views towards Nature and man's treatment of Nature have supported his position as an important icon of ecocritical studies. Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who has been considered as a forerunner of English Romanticism. ![]() Hence, Romantic poetry, in general, and William Wordsworth, in particular, became the key icons of ecocritical studies. With the publication of Lawrence Buell's The Environmental Imagination (1995) and Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm's joint collection, The Ecocriticism Reader (1996), Ecocriticism emerged in the 1990s and the critics changed their angles of vision and examined the works of art by focusing on the relationship between man and Nature. Wordsworth’s near-quietism rises to drama in his verse by its aspirational quality, just as his deathless hope, or hope in deathlessness, finds no secure basis in faith and doctrine until late in the poet’s career. ![]() Still, tangible things seen, and recalled, can also be our home if we live alongside them with humility and self-distance, welcoming what is given and craving no more. “Our destiny, our nature, and our home, / Is with infinitude-and only there / With hope it is, hope that can never die, / Effort, and expectation, and desire, / And something evermore about to be” (6:538-42). While admiring the patriotic magnanimity and modesty of his French acquaintance Michel Beaupuy, Wordsworth also claims that our destiny lies with things unseen and-less conventionally-with an indeterminate, ever-receding future. What abides on earth is the cardinal virtue related to hope, magnanimity, the greatness of soul that aspires to great things, as well as the countervailing virtue of humility. Wordsworth engages with the Christian wisdom of his day, wherein worldly wishes-for glory or wealth, permanence or improvement, adequate sensory pleasure-give way to super-sensual hope in eternity and infinity. Wordsworth also " means a power, a force, a dynamic principle that animates, that molds with plastic might the physical furnishings of the The stress on the word " nature " is much more than rivers, trees, rocks, etc. The narrative of Tintern Abbey, according to McKusick, " consists of the growth of the poet's mind as it evolves from an immediate sensation of pleasure in natural objects toward a more mediated response that exults in the power of imagination to modify and recombine the objects of perception " (25). ![]() The poem is a source of environmental recognition which sheds light on the sense of belonging to a place in an interdependent ecological community. ![]() It considers how the contradictory views of the afore-mentioned critics lead to a Green reading of the poem, and it demonstrates how the internal bond between man and nature in Wordsworth's poem grants humanity peace of mind. Through an ecocritical study of the poem, this paper examines the clash between the Yale School critics, the New Historicists, and the ecocritics. , William Wordsworth's great nature poem, Tintern Abbey (1798), sheds light on the way nature affects Wordsworth's memory and the ways his philosophical interconnection with nature enables him to attain mental growth.
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