To Nature Analysis

Author: Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Type: Poetry Views: 1261

It may indeed be phantasy, when I

Essay to draw from all created things

Deep, heartfelt, inward joy that closely clings ;

And trace in leaves and flowers that round me lie

Lessons of love and earnest piety.

So let it be ; and if the wide world rings

In mock of this belief, it brings

Nor fear, nor grief, nor vain perplexity.

So will I build my altar in the fields,

And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be,

And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields

Shall be the incense I will yield to Thee,

Thee only God ! and thou shalt not despise

Even me, the priest of this poor sacrifice.

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This poem reflects Coleridge's Pantheism - that is, that he believed God and the Universe to be one thing. This is especially evident in lines 9-10 "So I will build my alter in the fields..." He recognises that it may indeed be "phantasy" or impractical to draw all of one's knowledge from nature "...lessons of love and earnest piety" (5), but he says "let it be" that way - he doesn't care if people ridicule him for this belief. Ultimately this poem reflects the Romantic's concern with nature, that it is a wellspring of knowledge and all lessons can be learnt from it. Coleridge exalts nature in this poem by expressing his Pantheistic view of it being God.

| Posted on 2009-06-07 | by a guest

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i think that i disagree. this might be the poet's fantasy world...his dreams written out.

| Posted on 2009-01-08 | by a guest

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Nature is God, all created things are to be love and respect because is the house of God, if you want to be in peace with nature, you have to be one with nature and you, and only you can restored it and destroyed it, it is you the human and God.

respect everything around you and you wiil find the most valuable thing is this world and that is respect, no one is better than the other, is not equeal either, is Respect.

so in my opinion samuel is the man, he was in a higher level than anybody else in this world.

| Posted on 2006-02-21 | by Approved Guest

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