7. He revealed inner soul of nature in his works.“One impulse from the vernal wood May teach you more of man of moral evil and of good I hand all the sages can.”
8. Classification of Wordsworth’s Poetic Attitude Towards Nature The period of the freedom The period of the sense The period of the imagination The period of the soul
9. The Period of the Freedom His love for nature without mysticism and spirituality. In the words of W.H. Hudson “His love of healthy boy’s love of the open air and freedom of the fields.” “The Moon doth with delight look around her when the heavens are bare. Waters on a starry night. Are beautiful and fair.”
10. The period of Sense His passionate love for nature. Intellectuality was not there. Nature provided him true inspiration “The sounding contract haunted me like a passion, The tall rock, The mountain and deep gloomy woods, Their colour and their forms were then to me. An appetite : A feeling and a love.”
11. The Period of Imagination He achieved morality from nature. Nature : A perfect educator of man. “Daffodills” and “Lucy Poems” are the best examples. Here he meant moral as a positivity. “The anchor of my purest thoughts The nurse, the guide, the guardians of my heart and soul And of all my moral beings.”
12. The Period of Soul Nature : An object of soul and living spirit. Nature : A source of divine spirit. Nature : A touch of spirituality and mystical apprehension Presence of GOD in all aspect of nature. “In all things, in all natures, in the stars This active principle abides, from link to link It circulates the soul of all the worlds.”
13. Summing Up He was a true devotee of nature to humanity. In the words of Metthew Arnold. “Nature not only gave him the matter but wrote his poems for him.” Wordsworth was a in a true sense the most romantic and the purest soul of nature.