Mans Relationship with Nature in Hughes and Wordsworths...

Mans Relationship with Nature in Hughes and Wordsworths Poetry Concentrating on one Poem by each Poet, Compare and Contrast the ways in which Hughes and Wordsworth Present Man’s Relationship with Nature Both Hughes and Wordsworth have beliefs about man’s relationship with nature, but I feel that they see the relationship between the two in different ways. Hughes has a more pessimistic and negative approach, feeling that nature must protect herself from man’s destructive nature, while Wordsworth believes that nature is a teacher and nurtures you. Wordsworth uses a more optimistic and positive approach in his poetry. Wordsworth sees nature in a romantic and spiritual sense that protects and is constantly feeding and inspiring†¦show more content†¦This is shown in ‘Work and Play’ when Hughes describes a swallow as ‘a blue-dark knot of glittering voltage’. This shows how the swallow looks like a knot of glittering voltage implying that it is going very fast. This shows that Hughes thinks of the bird and nature in general as very smooth and good at what they do implying that we should learn from it. The way Hughes says ‘blue-darkâ₠¬â„¢ instead of dark blue emphasises the point by getting you to notice it more easily. Wordsworth does this in a different way because he doesn’t make his poetry so dramatic, but makes it subtle instead. There is evidence of this in ‘The Tables Turned’ on line 29 and 30 where Wordsworth has written ‘Enough of science and of art; Close up these barren leaves;’ here Wordsworth is implying with a punning hint to Matthew (the other character in his poem) that tree-leaves unlike book-leaves that are man made aren’t barren. He is also saying that they can teach you much more than books ever can. With a sense of enjoyment that comes with it. This shows how Wordsworth has a sense of humour and uses this in his poetry to show that not all learning has to be a serious and boring affair when you are learning from nature. He says that the way man teaches you to learn is slow and dull, boring you, meaning that you don’t concentrate as well as you could. This leads to an inadequate education because you have just acquired the information via second hand