An Analysis of Wordsworth’s View of Nature_英语论文

摘要

自然诗歌在英语文学史上有着悠久的历史。威廉·华兹华斯是自然诗歌的杰出代表，也是英国19世纪初浪漫主义文学的先驱者和奠基者。作为英国浪漫主义诗歌的领军人物，华兹华斯深入探索事物的本质，并被冠以“讴歌自然的诗人”的称号。对华兹华斯来说，大自然不仅仅是山川河流、森林湖泊，它包含着更加深刻的价值理念和哲学思想。本文首先研究诗人回归自然、欣赏自然的原因，其中包括当时的政治、经济和文化背景，以及诗人本身的成长经历。接着，本文着重分析了华兹华斯的自然诗歌中的三个重要的因素：上帝、儿童和女性。诗人认为世界万物都贯穿着神性；儿童是回归自然的中介；女性是陪伴他自然诗歌创作的重要人物。最后，文章分析了华兹华斯自然诗歌的写作特点。他接近自然，用浅显平易、通俗易懂的语言，把自然中最朴素、最常见的人物和事情作为灵感源泉。在华兹华斯的作品中，自然界中的万物都存在某种联系，相辅相成。

关键词: 华兹华斯 自然观 儿童 女性 上帝

Abstract

Natural poetry has a long history in British literature. One of the excellent representatives of romantic poetry, Wordsworth is the pioneer and the founder of British romanticism literature in 19th century. As a leading figure of the English Romantic Movement in poetry, Wordsworth deeply studies the nature of things and is labeled as a “worshipper of nature”. To him, nature means more than rivers, trees, rocks, mountains, lakes and so on. Nature has a moral value and has its philosophical significance. This thesis starts from the reasons that Wordsworth chooses “back to nature”, including economic, political and cultural background at that time, and his growth experiment. Next, the passage analyses the three main elements in Wordsworth’s poetry: God, child and woman. In his opinion, everything in this world has divinity; child is the preposition between man and nature; woman is a good company in his writing life. At the last, the thesis analyses the writing features of Wordsworth. He always started from common things, using concise and plain and natural language, and choosing the ordinary people and things as his creative source. In his works, there is some relation between all things in the universe, complementing each other.

Key Words: Wordsworth; View of nature; Children; Female; God 

Contents

1 Introduction 5

2 Three Main Reasons for Wordsworth Inclination to Divine Nature 7

2.1 Social and Political Reasons 7

2.1.1 The Influence of French Revolution 7

2.1.2 The Influence of Industrial Revolution 8

2.2 Cultural Background Reasons 8

2.2.1 The Nature View in Bible 8

2.2.2 John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau’s Influence 9

2.3 Personal Reasons 9

2.3.1 Religious Tendency to Pantheism 9

2.3.2 Unhappy Childhood Experience 10

3 Three Main Elements of His Poetry Embodying Wordsworth’s View of Nature 10

3.1 God and Nature 10

3.1.1Harmony between God and Nature 11

3.1.2 Inter-relatedness and Interactivity between All Beings 12

3.2 Children and Nature 13

3.2.1 Children-the Preposition between Man and Nature 13

3.2.2 Children’s Influence on Wordsworth’s Writing 15

3.3 Woman and Nature 15

3.3.1 The Role of Woman in Wordsworth’s Life 16

3.3.2 Woman’s Influence on Wordsworth’s Writing 17

4 The Features of Wordsworth’s writing 18

4.1 The Main Subject-Nature and Ordinary People 19

4.2 Plain Language 20

5 Conclusion 21

Bibliography 23