tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post1814817031689351040..comments2023-12-30T17:31:11.883+00:00Comments on The Solitary Walker: Nature Is Good For YouThe Solitary Walkerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-29260396253030769812009-05-06T02:03:00.000+01:002009-05-06T02:03:00.000+01:00You've inspired me to borrow a book so that I can ...You've inspired me to borrow a book so that I can read his poems in full!Raph G. Neckmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02468502742144495020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-4472033630538733132009-05-05T06:57:00.000+01:002009-05-05T06:57:00.000+01:00Beautifully put, Grizzled. I think you're right to...Beautifully put, Grizzled. I think you're right to stress Wordsworth's instinctive belief in the inclusiveness of all nature. His upbringing, the environment of his boyhood, his natural temperament and talent probably meant that he had to be this way, write this way.<br /><br />The philosophical ideas about God and nature and so on in poems like 'Tintern Abbey' and 'The Prelude' are sometimes delighfully obscure, and 'poetic' - for this is a man of feeling, and instinct, and poetic creativity, not a calculating and experimental scientist or pedantic philosopher.<br /><br />I very much like your insight that he was a poet who wrote within nature rather than merely of nature. Yes, that gets to the heart of it, I think.The Solitary Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11284354541952038339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8319797996494487653.post-8238509947569744872009-05-04T23:36:00.000+01:002009-05-04T23:36:00.000+01:00I think Wordsworth's belief in the "sublime, affec...I think Wordsworth's belief in the "sublime, affective power of nature," comes—if you'll pardon the pun—quite naturally. <br /><br />Wordsworth's was a true naturalist in the observational sense—he looked, watched, interpolated, correlated, understood. A poet who wrote within nature rather than merely of nature. Because of this depth and ease, he realized that nature is not sometimes just a metaphor of various aspects of human life—attitudes, beliefs, social structure, desires, and so on—but that human life and nature are one, that each reflect and inform the other. Nature affected him because he found in it the moving forces of human life, and they found their way into his poetry because he understood that behind us all—creative creatures that we sometimes are—lies inseparable nature.Grizz…………https://www.blogger.com/profile/04828454689578685330noreply@blogger.com