Nature in its Different Forms: An Ecocritical Analysis of Selected Poems of William Wordsworth and Rudyard Kipling

Abstract

Nature writing has been an evolutionary area in which different writers have different views. The focus of the present paper is on the contrast between two poets of different eras who were prominent in writing about the natural world. Both the poets, William Wordsworth and Rudyard Kipling show the relation between the human world and the natural world but both had different approach to present the same. This paper explains how both the poets perceive nature in their poems at different times. Could this be the effect of their being in different eras? The nature poetry of the romantic school has always been a key concernbut Kipling’s nature poems presents a modern view of the world where colonial natural scenario is presented by focusing the natural world of Indian subcontinent.