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Essay / Rejecting nature – from a young age. - 963
Rejecting nature -from a young age.Good evening, welcome to the progress of poetry. Following last week's program 'The Eternal Songs' of William Blake - tonight's show, Wordsworth's mind on nature, will interpret how: William Wordsworth represented cultural assumptions, attitudes and ideas, through two of his finest coins, daffodils and the world is too with us, in the romantic era. The Romantics believed that the center of change lay through the “common man”; as for beginning, beginning – the romantic revolution has taken place. The Romantic Revolution began in the early 17th century and was unveiled by the idealists who pioneered free thought; otherwise known as the Romantic poets. By filling their paper with the breathings of their hearts, the Romantics made poetry a vehicle for socially representing the idiosyncratic characteristics of their times. Highlighting the relationship between man and nature, their poetry was designed to become accessible to the “common man”. Blake's work casts a scathing social commentary on the growth of consumerism and the bourgeois class, through the rise of the Industrial Revolution: In every cry of every man, in every cry of fear of a child... Blood flows on the walls of the palace. However, Wordsworth took a gentler approach, advocating separation between man and nature within a predominantly Christian society. The beauty of nature in his work highlighted the fact that nature never betrayed the heart that loved it. Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, England. Death was an overarching theme in his life, as the quiet death of his mother when Wordsworth was seven and the second accidental death of his father at the age of thirteen left Wordsworth and his four siblings orphaned. Middle of paper ...... of the link between "common" man and nature. What have we done with our world? Michael Jackson asks his listeners. The repetition of rhetorical questions allows Jackson to prompt the listener to think about the nature of our world. Identical to the social commentary that Wordsworth approached. The song of the Earth allows us to identify the progress of poetry. As we see, the continuation of social commentary, but now addressed through song – an important element of modern poetry. Romantic poets used nature as the dominant theme in a large majority of their poems. William Wordsworth used poetry as a means of social commentary to anticipate the relationship between the "common man" and nature. The growth of consumerism and industrialization has had a negative effect on society and this weak bond, as we see little in the nature that is ours..