Exploring Pantheism in W.H. Davies and W. Berry’s Poetry

Abstract

Despite its great significance and valuableness, pantheism did not find enough discussion and inflow in the field of literature and literary studies .William Hennery Davies and Wendell Berry are considered from the most important English poets in accordance to their literary era. Based on the timeframe Davies is categorized as one of the Victorian period poets and Berry is located in the 20th century period. Though they have written much, rich and qualitative poetry both the two poets did not also find enough deal of reading and criticism with in our literary context. Therefore this research meant to highlights the concept of pantheism in these two poets projects distinguishing between nature and its external manifestation to Davies and Berry’s poetic projects and to investigate whether pantheism in the poetry of W. Davies and Berry is an ideological one or is merely artistic attitude, beside seeing to what extend does the question of pantheism is connected to the issue of identity. This means that the thesis discussed anew themes in work of almost new poets. The researcher used the descriptive analytical method referring to the interpretation, reader response theory and deconstruction as literary techniques and theories through which the research objectives achieved. The study examined the nature of existence; questioning the relation of nature with god and that of human to god and the whole being. The study declared that the two poets presented the concept of pantheism not atheism throughout their poet projects. This research is considered as a parallel study, it is field in the comparative studies that emphasize the similarity of two different literary works. The study also dealt with the issue of identity as an ontological question that enables the different entities to tackle their illusional aberrance and adapt themselves to their substantial belonging. Throughout this study the researcher dealt with pantheism as a merely artistic domain.