A common theme I discovered that was used by the classic English Romantic poets was a need to express one’s feelings for nature in a way that would encapsulate the reader to make the experiences their own. This kind of writing allowed Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Oliver, and William Wordsworth to write moving poems that allowed them to convey their feelings of adoration to nature onto paper for others to “feel” as they read the inspiring pieces of work they had written. In some poems there’s a common sense of calm and relaxation that the writer is feeling, but will translate to the audience through word cues and usage of the vocabulary in the poem. Another link I found commonly among some of the poems is the personification of nature in some …show more content…
In Ode to West Wind by Percy Shelley, Shelley converses with the wind as if it were a person and talks about all its great power and what it can do – he even takes it one step further and associates his thoughts to things in nature like leaves and his passion like embers. “Drive my dead thoughts over the universe, Like wither'd leaves, to quicken a new birth! And, by the incantation of this verse, Scatter, as from an unextinguished hearth Ashes and sparks, my words among mankind!” (Shelley) Another poem that does this very well is Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey where he speaks of many things such as the river, the mountain, and he even calls Nature his sister, showing a deep bond between him and nature May I behold in thee what I was once, “My dear, dear Sister! and this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty.”