How are Wordsworth and Coleridge different in their approaches towards nature?

 Difference between William Wordsworth and Samuel Tylor Coleridge:

           

William Wordsworth and Samuel Tylor Coleridge at the most important poets of the romantic period they are considered as the pioneer of romantic poetry. Together they wrote an important work lyrical ballads in which the poems associated with nature was written by Wordsworth and the poems associated with Supernatural elements were written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.


William Wordsworth is widely considered as the poet of nature because of his description of nature in his poems. On the other hand, Samuel Tylor Coleridge is considered as a poet of supernatural elements. Samuel Tylor Coleridge would inculcate Supernatural things in his poetry in such a way that they would appear natural (willing suspension of disbelief).

There is a big difference in the approach towards the nature of both the poets. William Wordsworth is of the opinion that the external environment or nature is important for inspiration or joy. According to Wordsworth, from the external environment, we receive stimulus and our mood becomes happy. The approach of Samuel Tylor Coleridge is quite opposite to that of Wordsworth. Coleridge believes that the external environment or external stimulus is not important for joy or delight. It lies within the person. if the person is internal happy then the external environment or nature looks pleasant and beautiful. If the individual is sad then nature will look awful. It lies within ourselves the Joys present inside the soul. Coleridge believes that our soul can make us happy. In his poem Dejection: An Ode Samuel Taylor Coleridge says, 

"And in our life alone does nature live:

Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud!"


Wordsworth and Coleridge both are great romantic poets. It can be clearly said that both have different approaches towards nature. Wordsworth gives more preference to nature while called Samuel Tylor Coleridge gives more importance to inner self for happiness or inspiration. The tendency of Coleridge is more towards the supernatural side.

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