Nature as a Dominant Theme in Romantic Poetry

Abstract

In this study the researcher focuses on the Romantic era in general and the Romantic Poetry in particular because the literary works of that era has specific characters and features that give it a unique flavor and makes it last for a long time, valid for all generations and has its own influence on the following eras of British literature at least. The study basically investigates the theme of NATUTER as a dominant one in some poems of the leader poets of that period (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats and Shelly), and how does each of the poets mentioned above apply and treat nature in the selected poem of his. Of course those figure poets implied every single aspect of nature craft fully and skillfully in their works. They wrote about the beauty of green fields, forests, colourful flowers, high hill, river banks, rural scenes, wild wind, fresh air, sun rise and sun set, twinkling stars, drippy rains . Almost all the romantic poets depicted every scene of natural beauty. The selected poems are:((The Daffodils by Wordsworth, The Nightingale by Coleridge, The Pathless Wood by Byron, A Thing of beauty by Keats and the Love’s Philosophy by Shelly)).