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    How Does Wordsworth Show His Attitude Toward Nature in Tintern

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    Wordsworth's attitude towards nature changes and develops over three stages as expressed in his poem "Tintern Abbey". Initially as a boy, he had a physical appreciation for nature and found pleasure roaming outdoors. As a youth, his love became more emotional and sensual in response to nature's beauty. Finally as a man, his love became both spiritual and intellectual, seeing nature as something with inner meaning and significance that could shape humanity. The poem traces this progression from early childhood to maturity in Wordsworth's changing relationship with and thoughts on nature.

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    Wordsworth's attitude towards nature changes and develops over three stages as expressed in his poem "Tintern Abbey". Initially as a boy, he had a physical appreciation for nature and found pleasure roaming outdoors. As a youth, his love became more emotional and sensual in response to nature's beauty. Finally as a man, his love became both spiritual and intellectual, seeing nature as something with inner meaning and significance that could shape humanity. The poem traces this progression from early childhood to maturity in Wordsworth's changing relationship with and thoughts on nature.

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    Wordsworth's attitude towards nature changes and develops over three stages as expressed in his poem "Tintern Abbey". Initially as a boy, he had a physical appreciation for nature and found pleasure roaming outdoors. As a youth, his love became more emotional and sensual in response to nature's beauty. Finally as a man, his love became both spiritual and intellectual, seeing nature as something with inner meaning and significance that could shape humanity. The poem traces this progression from early childhood to maturity in Wordsworth's changing relationship with and thoughts on nature.

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    Wordsworth's attitude towards nature changes and develops over three stages as expressed in his poem "Tintern Abbey". Initially as a boy, he had a physical appreciation for nature and found pleasure roaming outdoors. As a youth, his love became more emotional and sensual in response to nature's beauty. Finally as a man, his love became both spiritual and intellectual, seeing nature as something with inner meaning and significance that could shape humanity. The poem traces this progression from early childhood to maturity in Wordsworth's changing relationship with and thoughts on nature.

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    How does Wordsworth Show His Attitude toward Nature in Tintern Abbey.

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    "TINTERN ABBEY" RECORDS DIFFERENT STAGES IN WORDSWORTH'S


    APPRECIATION OF NATURE. DISCUSS.

    Wordsworth is highly acclaimed as a poet of nature. “Tintern Abbey” is one


    of his representative poems revealing a more deeply philosophical and
    unified expression of his thoughts about nature. In fact, the poem is
    Wordsworth’s own testimony to the change of his attitude to nature. He has
    given a highly emotional description of the effects of the outer world upon
    his own inner self, reflecting the different stages of the growth of his attitude
    to nature.

    The poem is especially memorable as Wordsworth’s own exposition of his


    changing attitude towards nature from his early boyhood to his mature age.
    His first stage in his love of Nature was as Hudson puts it so nicely, “simply
    a healthy boy’s delight in freedom and open air” which the poet calls “the
    coarser pleasures of my boyish days.” During this stage he had no
    conscious acquaintance to Nature. It was to him a mere playground giving
    him all these feeling of physical sensation. He found pleasure in roaming
    about in the midst of Nature. Like a deer, he leaped about over the
    mountains, by the side of the deep rivers, and along the lonely streams. He
    wandered about wherever Nature led him. His wanderings in the midst of
    Nature are described by him as “glad animal movements.

    However, when he became more mature, his attitude to nature started


    undergoing a great change. In his youth which is a period of the senses, the
    poet was thrilled and enchanted by the physical beauty of Nature. His love of
    nature in this stage was purely sensuous and emotional. This was
    characterized by “dizzy raptures” and “aching joys” which replaced his earlier
    “coarser pleasures” of his boyhood. The beautiful sights and sounds of
    Nature, the colors and the forms of the objects of Nature roused his sweet
    sensations, and made him very passionate. But as he was growing more and
    more into maturity, nature invoked in him the consciousness of “. . . still sad
    music of humanity” which he developed with a philosophical mind, looking
    at nature not with the painter’s eyes, but as an interpreter, trying to get the
    hidden meaning of nature.

    In the third and final stage, Wordsworth’s love for nature becomes spiritual
    as well as intellectual. To him, the water of the brook, as well as the murmur
    of the water, suggests agonized cry of the suffering human. He now became
    thoughtful. Therefore, when he looked at Nature, he was filled with deep
    thoughts. He now found an inner meaning and a hidden significance in
    Nature. The external beauty of Nature he still appreciated; but it was the
    inner or hidden significance of Nature which chiefly attracted him and
    quickened him into thought. He now found a living presence, or a divine
    spirit, in all the objects of Nature. He found that living presence in the light
    of the setting sun, in the round ocean, in the blue sky, and in all things. At
    this stage, he also realised the educative influence of Nature, and the power
    of Nature to mould the human personality and human character. He looked
    upon Nature as the nurse, the guide, the guardian of his heart, and the soul
    of his moral being. At this stage, Wordsworth was a “pantheist” and a
    believer in a spiritual communication between man and Nature.

    Thus, Wordsworth expresses and shows his attitude toward nature in


    gradual stages in the poem “Tintern Abbey”.

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