Idealization of nature in Romantic poetry
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?
The woman is forced to abandon her own principles because Nature feels something other it
is as good as to say if nature does this, so must you.
As much as I find the idealization of nature in romantic poetry a bit exaggerated, I have
nevertheless enjoyed reading most of the poems. Romantic authors do not really try to make
up new and magnificent qualities for nature, rather than show the simple ones that it already
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