They say that, "Beauty poisons both the onlooker and the beholder alike". I some times wonder,😳! how the nature allures with its awesome beauty!
Many a poets have described the natural beauties of this world, where we are living a happy and prosperous life.
The list of poets including some famous names and undoubtedly they are the real celebrities of the world of beautiful poetry. First of all, Words Worth is a the name which strike us instantly as Wordsworth was called by Shelly as a "Poet of Nature ". He, too, called himself "A Worshipper of Nature". He held a firm faith that nature could enlighten the kindheartedness and universal brotherhood of human being, and only existing in harmony with nature where man could get true happiness.
One among the most known and appreciated nature poets is Robert Frost. His works connected everyday life to nature.
"Two Roads diverged in a wood
and I took the one less traveled by." These lines from the poem, "The Road Not Taken" is one of the most celebrated lines of English poetry.
Alfred Lord Tennyson was a poet laureate of Great Brittain and Ireland during the reign of Queen Victoria. His poems use references of nature to describe more philosophical themes. He had a deep interest in reforming the society and tried to convey his desire through his poetry.
The following lines are from "Ulysses."
"Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me--
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads-you and I are old." Like wise Sylvia Plath too is a Nature adorer in her poems.
Sylvia Plath was a lyric poet in the Romantic tradition. She wrote poems that drew on her own experience of life and explored a range of emotions from love and joy to terror and despair. Like the Romantics, she looked inwards rather than outwards; her experience is gauged by what she has lived through.
Many writers from India too have added to the beauty of the country place in their poetry, like Shri. Rabindranath Tagore, Shri. Aurabindo Ghosh, Mohammad Ikbal, etc.,
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The Vigilant Village
General FictionI'm from a village, called Aushapur. "You know me", suddenly I felt a jerk in my spine,. While I was looking for the City bus, no:300 and i turned back and i was just astonishing to recollect the face from my memory. All of a sudden I felt it's Rama...
