Using this quote to increase our understanding further, we can also evaluate this poem's description of man’s effect on nature in contrast to Byron’s description of nature's effects upon man. We see a mirroring between the poems. It is the case of “Darkness” we see that it is nature’s deterministic progression, which result in the destruction of mankind and the degradation of human virtue. Wordsworth’s portrayal of a human’s free actions resulting in the destruction of nature. In the closing line of the poem we see a warning for how one ought to interact with nature and the substantiates it with a symbolic token that personifies nature and associates it with a conscious agent like a human:
“Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades
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Claiming that their is a “spirit in the woods” (55), both personifies nature in that it has a deeper and non-material essence in the same way humans do and grants nature agency, the ability to react as it would will towards the various individuals it engages with. Nature in Byron is explained based upon frameworks of nature entrenched in physics, rationality, and necessity and as a result do not allow for the freedom of nature or of humans for that matter. “Nutting,” contrary to Darkness, also places blame or at least causal status of some sort upon humanity and not nature itself. It is the speaker that either as a result of greed, or passion, or floral lust, corrupts the virgin scene that he comes across within nature and is subsequently affected with pain. In darkness we see that it is nature’s effects over man that degrade and corrupt man due to his inability to escape nature's scope. In the context of “Nutting” we find that it is humankind's decisions that are causally linked to a destruction and degradation of nature due to a self-imposed estrangement from nature. A theme of Romantic literature and particularly its poetry is nature man’s relationship to nature. William Wordsworth and Lord Byron, both greats of literary tradition
“Then, dearest Maiden, move along these shades
In …show more content…
Claiming that their is a “spirit in the woods” (55), both personifies nature in that it has a deeper and non-material essence in the same way humans do and grants nature agency, the ability to react as it would will towards the various individuals it engages with. Nature in Byron is explained based upon frameworks of nature entrenched in physics, rationality, and necessity and as a result do not allow for the freedom of nature or of humans for that matter. “Nutting,” contrary to Darkness, also places blame or at least causal status of some sort upon humanity and not nature itself. It is the speaker that either as a result of greed, or passion, or floral lust, corrupts the virgin scene that he comes across within nature and is subsequently affected with pain. In darkness we see that it is nature’s effects over man that degrade and corrupt man due to his inability to escape nature's scope. In the context of “Nutting” we find that it is humankind's decisions that are causally linked to a destruction and degradation of nature due to a self-imposed estrangement from nature. A theme of Romantic literature and particularly its poetry is nature man’s relationship to nature. William Wordsworth and Lord Byron, both greats of literary tradition