Poet's Love For Nature

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Poets’ Love for Nature Nature: a world around us that was not created by humans. Many people see nature in a different way. A scientist sees nature as a puzzle and a challenge. A philosopher sees nature as a source of inspiration. A poet, on the other hand, sees nature as a source of continued imagination as well as an inspiration. In William Henry Davies’s “Leisure”, he talks about taking time to notice, observe and appreciate the beauty of nature while R.S. Thomas in “Cynddylan on a Tractor” talks about how humans are destroying nature. Similarly, William Wordsworth describes nature as a healer as well as symbolizes the loneliness of human beings in “I wandered lonely as a cloud”. John Keats in “Ode to Autumn” pays homage to the autumn season and appreciates its beauty whereas in “Ode to Nightingale”, he complains about mortality of humans and describes nature as an element of perfection. Nature according to these poets is beautiful and inspirational but human beings are destroying and ignoring its importance as well as its beauty. “Leisure” by Davies talks about how human beings, the most intelligent people on earth, are neglecting and failing to appreciate the beauty of nature. He feels people are too busy in their material pursuits and are unable to enjoy the nature. He expresses his dissatisfaction on how the inhabitants of nature have become lazy and too much inclined to technology. Repeating the phrase “no time” (2) throughout the poem he portrays the dilemma mankind is facing. So, he wants human beings to slow down and take notice of the little things that we have and appreciate it. In the first two lines he says, What is this life if, full of care, / We have no time to stand and stare (Davies 1-2). Here he questions the residents of nature about what kind of life they are living where they do not have time to stand and look at what is happening

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