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Romantic Poets and their Successor

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Romantic Poets and Their successors, the author gives two possible reasons for the shift towards a focus in nature during this period. The first explanation is that nature’s beauty began to seem more scarce and valuable due to the emergence of factories and industrialization during the industrial revolution. This became a way to capture the fading view of nature that the people had. The second explanation for this new embracing of life was that it was viewed as a break from absolute monarchies. The wildness of nature was seen as a type of freedom of expression to replace the strict regulations of the time. William Words with wrote The World is Too Much With Us when he was 32, which was a heartfelt response to the demise of the cottage industry and rural way of life. People were no longer in touch with nature.
The industrial revolution was at hand, the industry was booming, and the poet always sensitive to the changes in the nations psyche grew increasingly alarmed. The World is Too Much with Us depicts that humankind has forsaken the soul and individuality for money and material gain. By rejecting a connection to nature, which enriches the soul, people have lost sight of the true meaning of human existence. In his poem, he denounces the materialism that he has observed in people after the industrial revolution. He believes that belief in materialism or events people from realizing the true meaning and purposes of life. He embraces nature to the extent that he says in his poem that he would rather be a pagan who worships nature than be someone who embraces spiritually empty materialism. There is a romantic attraction between the way the poet loves and values quality. His feelings are intimately connected to the behaviour of the natural world around him, a deeply passionate idea.

Another poet who talks about nature is Shelley. In the poem Ode to the West Wind, the poem is an inspiration Shelley draws from life. Instead of relying on traditional religion, Shelley focuses his praise around the role of the wind in the various cycles in nature such as death, regeneration, preservation and destruction. The persona begins by praising the wind using multiple techniques to personalize the great natural spirit in hopes that it will somehow heed his plea. In the first stanzas, the speaker praises the wind's power covered in smile and allusion to all that in which the wind can do. The speaker in the last verses enters into the poem hoping for equal treatment along with all other objects in nature, and he offers humility in the hope that wind will assist him in achieving his quest. To drove dead thoughts over the universe. Lastly, the poet is thankful for the inspiration he can draw from nature’s spirit.
We also see man’s selfish desires being part of dramatic monologue read in this week; for instance, My Last Duchess by Browning is a dramatic monologue which describes Duke's obsession with his Duchess.It demonstrates from the outset the passion by use of pronoun My. He has desires and bleeds to possess his Duchess, and the controls which admire and looks upon his wife. The Duchess has been silenced through death, and Browning presents love through the obsession of the Duchess and reflects on how this can cause death.

Blake’s poem the Tiger opens with the speaker wondering about the creator responsible for such a fearsome creature like Tiger. The poem portrays a philosophical problem of evil. The tiger, which is a fearful creature here, represents evil. For instance, the poem the world. Begins with the persona asking a fearsome tiger what kind of divine being could have created it. Its appearance, as stated by the poet, is scary, the poet even wonders who created that being.The speaker wonders how once that horrible heart began to beat. If the creator would have continued with the job of creating. By writing this poem on tiger, Blake tried to build a general idea that nature like work of art must in some way contain a reflection of its creator. The tiger is strikingly beautiful yet also horrific in its capacity for violence. The question in mind is what is the nature of God as derived from the fact that he created such a terrifying beast. Even though the tiger appears to be a terrifying creature, as the poem progresses it takes on a symbolic character and comes to embody the spiritual and moral problem the speaker explores that is utterly beautiful and yet destructive, lakes tiger becomes the symbolic centre for an investigation into the presence of evil in the world.  The speaker still fears that whoever created such a fearful creature must be nervous as well. The Poem also shows a sense of innocence and experience in that the same creator of the fearful Tiger is still the creator of the lamb, which is a sign of good. Lastly, the Tyler consists of unanswered questions, and the poet leaves us to awe at the complexity of creation.
Tennyson's poem Ulysses allows the reader to see through the eyes of Ulysses. The poem reflects on how Ulysses makes meaning in his life to the fullest until his death. Ulysses declares in his verse that there is little point in his staying home with his old wife, doling out rewards and punishments for unnamed masses which live in his kingdom. Through a monologue, he says that he cannot rest from travel but feels compelled to live the fullest and swallow every last drop of life. He has enjoyed all his experiences as a sailor who travels seas and considers himself a symbol for everyone who roams the earth. He declares that his travels have shaped him to who he is. According to Ulysses, it is annoying to stay in one place and that to remain stationary is to rust rather than to shine. Ulysses complains that he is idle as a king, home with his elderly wife stuck enlightened passing laws, he, however, does not want to do cease his travels, he has made the most of his life having suffered and experienced pleasure both with others and alone and both at sea and on the shore. Ulysses also speaks to his audience concerning his son, who would succeed him after his death. He speaks highly about his son as being an able ruler praising his prudence, dedication and devotion to the gods. He says that he knows that his son will lead well. Finally, he addresses the mariners with whom he has worked, travelled, and weathered litres storms over many years. He encourages them that even if they have grown old, they can still do something significant before the due day comes. He helps them that they can always do something noble.  

References
Wordsworth, W.&Rodgers, P.J(1980) The World is Too Much With Us

Nurmi, M.K(1956)Blakes Revision Of the Tyger, Publications of ModernLanguage Associations Of America,669-685.