Author:
THILAGAVATHI G
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ABSTRACT
This
paper is all about how nature and wilderness are being written in literature.
As we all know that nature plays an important role in our life. There are so
many writers in literature who tell us the importance of nature and wilderness
through which we can understand nature even more better. The nature and
wilderness are interconnected to each other along with the human soul. In this
modern world we very rarely find time to spend with nature. We also forget that
the nature gives us peace. This nature and wilderness can be connected with joy
and Adversity how both are equal in our life likewise they both are also
equally important. Writing nature is a historically recent literally genre. I
will substantiate my topic with reference to prose and poems how it actually
helps us to stay connected with nature. poem such as “anecdote of the jar”.
WILDERNESS were people find themselves
were they overcome obstacles and conquer nature and at the same time the
wilderness is now where people are devoid of material possession. We tend to
understand nature by outward appearance as we also never go deep and understand
its wilderness. When its deeply understood we peace within ourselves. Where we
also understand that nature is always permanent compared to wilderness. it also
tells us the benefits of nature in oneself. As human soul is also
interconnected with nature and this doesn’t mean that nature is present in only
beautiful things. Among the wildest things in nature also the beauty is present
but it doesn’t appear to us easily. It is left us to find them.
INTRODUCTION
Representation of
the natural environment is recorded in literature and the early recordings are
prominent in the account of the Garden of Eden in the Hebrew bible.
The
nostalgic view of a return to unspoiled nature in order to restore a lost
simplicity, and concord remained evident in James Thomson’s long poems in blank
verse, the seasons (1926-30), and in the widely practiced genre called nature
writing. The intimate, realistic and detailed description in prose of the
natural environment, rendered as it appears to the distinctive sensibility of
the author.
Henry David
Thoreau’s Walden (1854). By the middle 19th century, Thomas and
other writers in America and England were already drawing attention to the
threats posed to the environment by urbanization and industrialization.
NATURE:
Nature teaches us
a lot everyday like: it teaches us about freedom.
It shows us how to
rise up when the time is not right.
It also teaches us
that we must believe in ourselves.
WILDERNESS:
Beauty is in the
red of the dragon flame.
The way it burns
impossible to tame.
Beauty is in the
orange of the volcano’s eruption.
Running down the
side in a fiery disruption.
Nature in
literature provides a wide range of text, from both well-known and less
familiar writers, and it offers students a broad base of knowledge from which
to reflect and respond. As it is not only just explaining nature, but just to
give a real picture about it by seeing it naturally.
Poets bring nature
in front of us ,when we read nature-centric poems ,that is because they never
miss any minor things in nature .also they see to it whether they have
described nature in such a way that it stands emotionally strong in our mind.
Literature acts as
a communication tool, where the poets can express their views freely; this is
the place where we get a change to understand nature even better. In this busy
world, we often fail to understand the importance of nature, a kind of peace is
present in nature and it is truthful for the mankind which never has a false
fantasy.
Nature not only
lie with abundance of beauty right before our eyes but the wilderness present
in it makes us to contemplate about nature in a different perspective .
Writing nature is
also about the natural environment around us .there are many poets who still
write .As nature is not just like that written , it is written when the author
has strong belief on it ,when he is emotionally attached towards it .About
nature ,For them nature is that best teacher ,those teachings are shared with
us in the name of poems ,essays ,novels ,etc...
When we think
about nature, we generally think about its mild appearance in the environment
but it also has varied images of wilderness which reflects inside us .The human
eyes and the world of literature has not trained to look at the Wilderness in
all its magnificence and appeal.
In the poem:
ANECDOTE
OF THE JAR:
BY WALLACE STEVENS
This poem tells that
the man made jar caused the wilderness to surrounded the hill, or that the hill
looked more untidy in contrast for the jar.
Wild nature rises
up to the artistic jar, which can be compared to the human imagination. This
also means that the man runs behind the materialistic needs which is not
permanent happens when he fails to understand the realistic nature which is
permanent.
“The wilderness rose up to it, and
sprawled around, no longer wild.
The jar was round
upon the grand and fail and of a part in air.”
Which means to tell
that wilderness has nothing to do with the nature ,In front of the nature even
the wilderness fails, the nature is very powerful than any wild things. Meanwhile
the materialistic requirements replace this world things also don't stay long
in front of nature. The nature gets connected to our soul when we truly love
it. The forest is just a forest from the person’s point of view but it is scenery
from the poet’s point of view. They also try to connect us with the nature.
Beautiful poems come from the wildest things of nature.
Wilderness can be
indirectly compared to the materialistic needs of a human being in this world
who runs behind it without any soulful understanding of it. People keeps on
searching for peace but fail to see that “peace is within them”. Likewise, the
nature is everywhere around them but they fail to recognise them.
Nature and
wilderness in literature it’s symbolises the exact meaning of life of a human
being. This can also mean that life and death are equal in front of nature,
when there is birth; there are also eyes of death, which is “famous law of
nature”. It is like a light breeze, which we love, but when don’t like when it
then into horrible storm.
When it comes to
tribal people, they live in the forest; but they live long with the nature.
This shows the simplicity of those people who live along with the nature, as
they never knew about this modern world. As life should be seem from both comes
positive as well as negative.
Wilderness is not
just a word, the word itself very powerful when we hear, it has terrible,
horrible meanings too.
In the poem:
BIRCHES:
-BY ROBERT FROST
“When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker
tress,
I like to think some boy’s been swimming
them”.
We can discuss
here, the power of imagination. As what he has told is that he is around
birches which is very dark, here we can see the wilderness of the surroundings,
which is very silent, since the wilderness around it is very heavily, by which
he is trying to merge nature and wilderness, in this wild
Forest we could also witness these beautiful
birches, around him which is dark and wild.
From which he is
taking the poem to the next level, with his power of imagination that “the boy
swinging”. As he is just like that why he adds is that he is not just
explaining the appearance of wilderness in nature but tries to add beauty to
the wilderness is also the part of nature.
The birches -
trees representing creative life itself, their flexibility that supports each
person’s needs to strike a balance and to overcome what can be a precarious
human existence. The poet chooses the tree as a vehicle for potential
transcendence as a means of leaving the earth temporarily, Robert Frost has
tapped into the mythological and biblical repositories, where the tree is both
life given and life taker.
This poem takes
you into the wildest words and nearly up to heaven. Wilderness is a part of
nature which can’t be separated at all. It also talks about the inner beauty of
the nature rather than the outer beauty. It can be called as a special feature
of nature.
Living life simply
not only brings happiness but also inner peace and harmony with in a human
being. Nature plays a great role along with wilderness which is present in it.
References
1]
“ANECDOTE OF THE JAR” BY WALLACE STEVENS’S FIRST BOOK OF POETRY, HARMONIUM.
FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1919, IT IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN
2] “BIRCHES”BY ROBERT FROST.IT
WAS COLLECTED IN FROST’S THIRD COLLECTION OF POETRY MOUNTAIN INTERVAL THAT WAS
PUBLISHED 
