摘要

华兹华斯是十九世纪英国最杰出的浪漫主义诗人之一，他一生中创作了许多赞美自然的不朽篇章。这些包含哲理的诗篇使他获得了“大自然的诗人”的美誉。在他的自然颂歌中，华兹华斯充分表达了对大自然的热爱和赞美之情。华兹华斯尽情地歌咏自然，同时也从自然中获得创作灵感。本文试图解读华兹华斯的自然观。本文首先分析他的自然观是如何形成的，这部分将通过他的童年经历、卢梭的观念和当时的政治环境三个方面对他产生的影响来介绍。论文接下来阐述华兹华斯的诗歌所呈现的自然与人的关系。这里我们将看到，自然对华兹华斯而言，就像一位亲密无间的朋友，一位和蔼可亲的母亲，一位博闻广识的老师。然后本文将通过三部不同的作品来进一步仔细阐述这三种关系，三部作品分别为我心雀跃、丁登寺、水仙花。经过这样的探讨，我们可以更加清楚地理解和感受华兹华斯的自然观。

关键词：华兹华斯；自然观 ；浪漫主义；孤独

Abstract

Wordsworth is one of the most remarkable romantic poets of England in 19th century. He wrote many immortal chapters in praise of nature in his life. These philosophical poems attributed greatly to the reputation of “poet of nature”. In his natural poems, Wordsworth fully expressed his love and admiration for nature. Wordsworth sang heartily for nature, but also acquired inspiration from nature. This essay tries to discuss Wordsworth’s view of nature. Firstly, the paper will analyze how his view of nature formed. In this part, his childhood experience, Rousseau’s view of nature and the political environment will be introduced as these three aspects have made great influences on him. And then, this paper demonstrates the relationship between nature and human beings in his point of view. And it can be concluded that in Wordsworth’s eyes, nature just like an intimate friend, an amiable mother and an erudite teacher for him. Three poems will be discussed to explain these three kinds of relationship sufficiently. They are My Heart Leaps Up, Tintern Abbey and I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. After analyzing the contents above, we will understand his idea and feelings better.

Key words: Wordsworth; view of nature; romanticism; solitude

1. General introduction of Wordsworth
William Wordsworth, the representative poet of the early romanticism who, together with Coleridge and Southey, has often been mentioned as the “Lake Poet”. For his poetic talent, Wordsworth was appointed England’s poet laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.
On April 7, 1770, William Wordsworth was born in lawyer’s family in Cockermouth, Cumberland. Losing his parents early in life, he was taken in charge by his uncle who sent him to school at Hawkshead, the beautiful Lake District in Northwestern England, where he wandered exuberantly through the lovely natural scenery and started to show keen and precociously discriminating interest in poetry.