Idealization of nature in Romantic poetry
goal to reach.
Romantic poets often bring nature as a good example of what a person should act like and
which moral values possess. It is something to look up to and its ways something to follow.
However, I find that this kind of idealization at times is exaggerated and used as an excuse
to me, some of the poems seemed to exploit people's wanting to adopt the ways of Nature.
For example, in the poem "Loves Philosophy" Percy Shelley tries to convince or even, I dare
to say, inveigle a woman to love him by describing how every element in nature is also
connected with one another and there can be no part left alone. He presses on the fact that the
woman should follow Nature's ways:
/.../
See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
No sister flower would be forgiven,
If it disdained it's brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea;--
What are all these kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
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