خوانشی از اشعار منتخب ویلیام وردزورث براساس نقد محیطی

when we return to the concept of poetry and the age-old discussion about the uselessness or the usefulness of the poets to the private and public state of human beings, originating from plato and aristotles views about poets respectively, there emerges the question of the role of poetry in human beings lives. in the same manner, with the advance of technology and the daily progress and improvements in the lives of the individuals we witness that the more modern the society becomes the more nostalgic and alienated the human beings become. so we can ask ourselves: what phenomenon is this modern technology? as we look back to the historical records and documents, we can trace the sources of the modern mans alienation and nostalgia to his/her separation from mother earth, or better say, nature. literary critics, in different eras, have talked about different aspects of literary works. unfortunately, modern and postmodern literary approaches to literature have neglected to do justice to nature; the gaps between man and nature have been left unbridled. with the emergence of ecocriticism in the 1990s the critics were ready to change their angles of vision and examine the works of art by focusing on the relationship between man and nature, i.e. the interconnectedness of human culture and physical environment. jonathan bate is among those ecocritics who believe that, "poetry is the place where we save the earth" (song of the earth 283). keeping this issue in mind, romanticism is the signifier of the unification of mind and nature. though all romantic poets have tried to conserve the nature, william wordsworth has long been viewed as a nature poet. according to bate, "wordsworth remains the founding father for a thinking of poetry in relation to place, to our dwelling upon the earth" (ibid 205). in other words, his views about nature and his poems seek to heal the long-forgotten wounds of nature, imposed on it by human beings, in the hope of reaching unification between man and nature. therefore, this thesis is an attempt to examine some selected poems of wordsworth through the lens of ecocriticism in order to shed light on the poets cautious views about the interconnectedness of man and nature.