Nature is a key motif in romantic poetry. How does Wordsworths Tintern Abbey (Reading5.1) illustrate this fact?

The idea of romanticisim is deeply entwined with the ideals of nature. A romanticlifestyle would be one of true simplicity, and the connection with nature makes thatsimplicity possible. This poem echoes many notes of nature. It opens by using theseasons to measure time that has passed by. The mentions of waterfalls, flowers, fields,and the quiet sky conjure up raw, natural, human emotion, which what romantic poetryis based on.

2.What does the wind represent in Shelleys Ode to the West Wind?
The wind represents the idea of change. Shelley describes how the wind shapes andchanges the earth. There are many metaphors that the author uses to illustrate howthings change over time. These natral elements, such as flowers, the seasons, and riversand streams are all characteristic of romantic poetry.

3.Who were the American transcendentalists? How did they regard the role of nature in humanlife?
The most notable American transcendentalists are , Ralph Waldo Emmerson andHenery David Thoreau. Others include Margaret Fuller, Theodore Parker andElizabeth Palmer Peabody, although many more abound. They found nature to be verylinked with human life, and illustrated that idea in their works. Their view of humannature was realistic and within the chords of natural life on planet Earth.

4.What did Thoreau mean by the indescribable innocence of nature?

Thoreau uses this phrase to describe how nature is truly all about the simplest of pleasures. In innocence, the world is simple and so are your joys. It is ratherindescribable, for we have few words in the English language that we have assigned tothis flavor of simplicity. I suppose it is because it is not something that would want to beadvertised to society because it encourages no real advancement to our community,which the human race seems to strongly desire.

5.What is free verse? Cite an example from Chapter 27.

Free verse is poetry written free of rhyme or meter. Not to say that it cant rhyme orhave some sort of structure to it, but it is free-flowing and natural. Free verse poetrymakes a great template for romantic poetry. Tintern Abbey is a great example of freeverse. When read aloud, the poem is more of a long thought or steam of consiousnessthan a metered work of poetry. While lacking the structure of typical poetry, this work is still poetic.

6.How did Hegel explain the operation of nature? Did he believe that the dialectic operated inan absolute manner?
The idea of absolouteness is a large part of what Hegel was all about. He believedthat his new principle of philosophy equals the spirit. Within that ideal is of self-actualization and cognition of a higher being. His approach was indeed intellectual. Hegel used the dialectics in the positive sense that the dialectics is the scientificapplication of the universal law rooted in the nature of our thinking. To Hegel, the lawof thinking is at the same time further the principle of reality. 7.Explain in your own words the phrase evolution by natural selection