Vision of Nature: Romantic Poetical Imagination

Abstract

The present study depicts the vision of nature in the romantic poetical imagination. The objectives of the study to explore Wordsworth and Coleridge’s vision of nature by using poetical imagination in romantic poetry. The concept of nature having the connectedness to imagination in romantic poetry, stressing the faculty of imagination to get access to a kind of knowledge that cannot be provided by other means, the senses or rationality. This concept was initiated and developed only during the romantic period. The conceptualization of imagination in poetry as a tool to understand reality that indicates a change in the concept of poetic imagination in the modern period that is also prevailing in the poetry of current romanticists. In contemporary poetry and literature, modes of imagination are being used namely as; prosaic imagination, pictorial imagination, fancy imagination, fancy-realistic imagination and poetic imagination. In the concluding remarks, the researchers can say that William Wordsworth as romantics urges that a union with nature is what frees the mind from the stir and thrust of its own dark emotions in this materialistic world. Poetical imagination in poetry remains as important as it ever was, although now it is comprehensive from the faculty by which we engage the world to the faculty by which we take our stand on why that engagement might matter in the materialistic world as well as the spiritual world of thought.