ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Many romantic poets considered nature as the source of human ideas and emotions. Writers and artists of the romantic period typically rely heavily on natural imagery in their work. These artists and writers use scenes and images from the natural world to spark the imagination of their audience.

Detailed explanation-2: -A major theme in Romantic poetry is the relationship between humans and their emotions and the natural world. The Romantic poets felt that humans’ internal lives and the exterior, natural world had a lot in common: they could both be mysterious, open and vast, wild and free, and sometimes a little bit terrifying.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to the romantics, the solution was “back to nature” because nature was seen as pure and a spiritual source of renewal. It was also a way out of the fumes of the growing industrial centres for the new industrial rich.

Detailed explanation-4: -Essentially, the Romantics thought that Nature (and they did often capitalize it, with a pantheistic reverence akin to Native Americans) was profoundly beneficial for mankind; that being in nature could have powerful physical, moral, educative effects on a person.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Romantic poets also regarded Nature as a ‘living force’, as the expression of God in the universe. Nature became a main source of inspiration, a stimulus to thought, a source of conform and joy and a means to convey moral truths.