The Environmental Imagination and William Wordsworth: A Study of Selected Poems
Abstract
Women, individuals from underprivileged areas, and children are disproportionately affected negatively by the detrimental effects of pollution and other sorts of environmental deterioration. This is especially true of children. The warming that is induced by humans and the effects that this has come under this area. This has been demonstrated to be accurate by a number of incidents that occurred in the past. The poems in Lyrical Ballads are not just about the notions of a new "environmental" way of knowing or being; they are also about female vagrants, uprooted pastoralists, insane women, the cold and hungry, and even a "Idiot Boy," or, to put it another way, they are about the dispossessed and the voiceless. The poems included in Lyrical Ballads are not confined to only addressing the tenets of a society that is in the process of emerging. Wordsworth has more cause to condemn "what man has made of man" now that he is aware, as a result of Lyrical Ballads, that environmental and social problems are linked. This is as a result of the fact that Lyrical Ballads illustrates how social and environmental problems are intertwined with one another. This view is supported by the data that is offered in the Lyrical Ballads. This concept, in addition to the fundamental principles underlying a great many other ideas, is highly illustrative and lends itself perfectly to the art form of lyrical poetry. When people talk about "nature poets," examples like William Wordsworth and the Lake District in England are typically brought up as examples. Wordsworth is known to a large number of people as both the "poet of the self" (of the inner landscape) and the "poet of the landscape." Actually, when Wordsworth writes, "Nature never did betray/The heart that loved her," he is bringing together his sense of being a patient receiver of the responses of the "heart," receiving "from" the inner landscape of external nature both as a ministering agent, one ministering "to" the self, and as an of the "self" the promise of both their futures. This brings together his sense of being a patient receiver of the responses of the "heart." To be more specific, he is combining the sensation of being a patient receiver of the reactions of the "heart" emotions with the experience of having the sensation of being a passive recipient of the responses of the "to have the sensation of being a passive recipient of the responses of the ".This openness and calmness in the process of waiting for "heart" reactions. In this particular scenario, a person's own individual ecological history is more significant than any certain ecological theory.
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