Relationship between Nature and Man
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
William Blake (1757-1827)
Ernest Hermingway (1899-1961)
Herman Melville(1819-1891)
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) "The Poet of Nature"
"Lyrical Ballads" (1797-1799)
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798)
Material world is less important than imagination
Pantheistic view
"London" published with his poem "Songs of Innocence" in 1789
everyone is suffering
every innocent action is soiled by immoralty
The role of Nature
caused by institutions
Connection between childhood and Nature
Men's guilt for all suffering
The old man in the sea, (1952)
Moby Dick (1851)
Divine relationship between Man and Nature
"The Daffodils", 1807
Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
relationship and understanding of the natural world
man versus nature
multi-faceted interaction with nature
"Frankenstein"1818
Association of nauture and feelings
The overreacher
Nature as an impersonal and inscrutable phenomenon
Nature: uncorrupted, innocent, magnificent, superior
Penetration of nature's secret
Man: corrupt, murderer
The relationship with nature depends on human behaviour
Nature as an inspiration
man tries to defeat nature
- The mariner performs an act against Nature by killing the albatross.
- Nature will take its revenge until he blesses it.
Double view of fire
The sublime
Nature as a source of recovery