William Wordsworth and the Present World

Abstract

William Wordsworth, one of the most prominent English Romantic poets, deals with the issues of nature, mental health, and existential questioning that have relevance to the modern world as well. His poetry full of natural images and descriptions focuses on the hidden powers and features of natural space. It correlates with the modern tendencies of the ecological movements and activities to protect the environment and stop climate changes. Moreover, Wordsworth’s ideas that nature is one of the most powerful tools to restore a persons’ mental health through a discussion or contemplation that is especially important for the ongoing process of the urbanization and digitalisation of the modern world and all the challenge it brings to the citizens. What is more, such introspection as an analysis of a place of memory, its features and benefits, and the desire to reveal one’s imagination leads to certain conclusions and experiences of questioning that Wordsworth offers in his “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” and “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”. In this way, his themes of nature, memory, imagination, and existential questioning provide the most proper connections to the modern world to help the people to eradicate the environmental issues or restore their mental health to overcome all the contemporary problems. That is why Wordsworth’s poetry exists now as the best appeal to realise how people should bear the meaning of the life due to the presence of the unique bond that exists between nature and a human being.