William Wordsworth’s Ecocritical Outlook in The Light of Transcendentalism

Abstract

William Wordsworth has explored nature in a more interesting way and has considered it as a separate entity. It is true that nature has forever been a source of inspiration for poets throughout history. Yet it has also come under observation that often nature in poetry has been associated with the idle mind as opposed to the idyllic. Wordsworth was influenced by Rousseau and Godwin. Wordsworth was committed to the theory of the mind once and for all. It has been said that he was drunk with God and Nature. William Wordsworth has evoked the divinity of nature and explored transcendentalism in his renowned poems. We can’t be healthy in an unhealthy environment. It is our own best interest to preserve the natural world as much as we can. By examining the important role of nature, a new literary theory has been developed that is known as Eco-criticism. The chief focus of ecocriticism is the relationship man shares with nature. With the upsurging crisis in ecology, it becomes necessary to study human-nature relationships more intimately.