Faulkner has similarity with Wordsworth too because of his love for nature. Wordsworth believed in the power of nature to bring people out of their miseries especially those defeated in life. Faulkner does have comparison with Wordsworth especially in ‘primitivism” and “Stoicism” but Faulkner does not have the serious philosophical tone displayed by Wordsworth. He presents his love for nature in a more simple, realistic and comic manner. Both of them admired rural life and hated urbanism and considered it as an evil that will destroy agrarian peaceful life. Their works contain similar agrarian characters from the rural country life. According to Brooks, “Faulkner does not risk Wordsworth serious philosophic tone. The mode is comic, and if the
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Brooks says that, “The community is for Faulkner typically a small town or rural community. Like Wordsworth, he is not really at ease in the great city. Wordsworth’s agrarianism-his conception of the good life lived on the land and his distrust of industrialism.” (Brooks 1999 p43) The characters of Faulkner enjoy nature but nature doesn’t become a solace for them. They are simple country folks who live in accordance with nature code and in harmony with it. The Villains of Faulkner break this nature code; they ruthlessly exploit nature through an artificial design for their benefit. For example, V. K. Ratliff is like Wordsworth’s wanderer, but he may not be as saintly but could the stories and loves nature while Sutpen, Popeye, or Jason Compson is all unnatural and are even scared of the natural world. According to Brooks,”Faulkner and Wordsworth are much closer in their interpretation of the way in which a life close to nature has molded their simple peasants and country people and in the way in which they interpret the desecration of nature-one remembers.” (Brooks 1999 p45) Wordsworth poems were a reaction to the destruction of rustic life so was Falkner’s fiction.
Brooks says that, “The community is for Faulkner typically a small town or rural community. Like Wordsworth, he is not really at ease in the great city. Wordsworth’s agrarianism-his conception of the good life lived on the land and his distrust of industrialism.” (Brooks 1999 p43) The characters of Faulkner enjoy nature but nature doesn’t become a solace for them. They are simple country folks who live in accordance with nature code and in harmony with it. The Villains of Faulkner break this nature code; they ruthlessly exploit nature through an artificial design for their benefit. For example, V. K. Ratliff is like Wordsworth’s wanderer, but he may not be as saintly but could the stories and loves nature while Sutpen, Popeye, or Jason Compson is all unnatural and are even scared of the natural world. According to Brooks,”Faulkner and Wordsworth are much closer in their interpretation of the way in which a life close to nature has molded their simple peasants and country people and in the way in which they interpret the desecration of nature-one remembers.” (Brooks 1999 p45) Wordsworth poems were a reaction to the destruction of rustic life so was Falkner’s fiction.