The poetry of the English Romantic period (1800-1832), often contain many descriptions, and ideas of nature, not found in most writing. The Romantic poets share several charecteristics in common, certainly one of the most significant of these is their respective views on nature.Which seems to range from a more spiritual, if not pantheistic view, as seen in the works of William Wordsworth, to the much more realistic outlook of John Keats. All of these authors discuss, in varrying degreess, the role of nature in acquiring meaningful insight into the human condition. These writers all make appeals to nature as if it were some kind of living entity calls are made for nature to rescue the struggling writer, and carry his ideas to the world. One writer stated in his introduction to a Romantic anthology:

The variety of this catalogue implies completedness;

surely not phase or feature of the outer natural world

is without its appropriate counterpart in the inner world

of human personality. Nature, then, can be all things to

all men. To the revolutionary Shelley, the rough wind

wails, like the poet himself, for the world's wrong; or it

My spirit! Be thou Me impeuous one!

The clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a

The fourth stanza (not hitherto quoted), contains images again of the wind lifting the dead leaves up, and seemingly giving them life. He compares the freedom of the leaves, to the freedom he has experienced as a boy, and his longing to return to such a carefree state. Then comes his most concise pleading for nature's help "Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! (84). The final stanza, quoted in its entirety above, finally completes the metaphor of his "dead thoughts", as leaves (85). He is imploring the wind to spread his thoughts over the earth so that they might somehow become part of a new awakening. He also uses the metaphor of "Ashes and sparks" being driven across the land, ignighting the world on fire (ibid). Finally he states that the wind is like a trumpet of prophecy declaring the arrival of the Spring.

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Approximate Pages = 12 (250 words per page double spaced)