WORKS BY CZECH ARTIST JIRI KOLAR (1914-2002).
During the Romantic Age, William Wordsworth leaned toward mysticism and pantheism, as it pertained to nature. He believed nature was a living being and where God dwelled. Nature, according to Wordsworth, provided the means by which people communed with God. He also believed that God was in everything and everything was in God. Contextually, his poems expressed this belief. Consider this portion from his poem Tintern Abbey, where he wrote,
"...And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with joy
Of elevated thoughts ; a sense sublime
of something for more deeply infused,
Whose dwelling is the light of the setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man."
As you can see, Wordsworth believed God was in the mind of man, that a pre-arranged harmony exists between the two, and provides the catalyst for communicating with nature. Moreover, nature provides solace and healing and says Wordsworth, knowledge. Materialism can cause man to lose his grip on what's important in life and nature helps to restore ones faith in humanity. it alleviates the cynicism that the noise and busyness of life creates.
Wordsworth saw life in everything, in all objects, and in all of nature. He believed that every cloud, every flower, every lake, every star, and every creature great or small, had a life of its own. Wordsworth's chief motivation was to find the deepest and most profound meaning of human existence in nature. In doing so, he became a poet whose writing was influenced by nature.
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