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

london by Blake

The old man in the sea, (1952)

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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

Mary-Shelley

Nature as an inspiration

man tries to defeat nature

Frankenstein

  • The mariner performs an act against Nature by killing the albatross.
  • Nature will take its revenge until he blesses it.

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Double view of fire

The sublime

Nature as a source of recovery