Literature And Literature's Relationship To The Environment

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Environment is a place where living creatures survive SUSTAIN AND multiply. Poets and writers related different periods of nature to different stages of man. Literature and environment go hand in hand in writings, they are synonymous. If literature and nature is unified in other words ‘chutnified’ there is a birth of a new word called LITERNATURE- a word to make nature and literature to go together. Literature’s relationship to the environment has always been very intimate and exhibits kinship .
The paper focuses the areas such as nature which has same feelings as human beings; nature is a place of solace for the disturbed souls; nature is embodiment of God; man perceives nature through lens of immaturity in childhood; and nature never deceives humans. …show more content…

Wordsworth, the illustrious poet who belongs to the first generation of the Romantic Poets, is considered to be a nature poet who viewed nature as a living entity, and also who believed that nature is endowed with feelings and purposes. Dean Church opines,
Wordsworth was first and foremost a philosophical thinker, a man whose intention and purpose it was to think out for himself, faithful, and seriously, the question concerning man and nature and human life.1(as cited in

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