Alvani personal blog: Romantic poets

Hello Readers! Here I write the blog in response to the thinking activity of Romantic Poets assigned by yesha ma'am.

"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."

-William Wordsworth

Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. The Romantic Era in English literature began in the 1790s with the publication of the Lyrical Ballads of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Romantic poetry is the poetry of sentiments, emotions and imagination. William Wordsworth, P.B Shelley, Willam Black, John Milton, Matthew Arnold are the major poets of the Romantic Era. A major theme in Romantic poetry is the "Relationship between humans and their emotions and the natural world."

Romantic poets tried to heal the Sorrows of human beings by writing their verses about nature. Thus romantic poets believe that Nature is a source of revelation. Many poets include descriptions of nature in their poems. They describe the world around them in writing for a purpose. They not only try to show us what they see, they try to make us understand how they feel. Nature has always been a very important subject for poets and prose writers. According to Romantics, the solution was "back to nature" because nature was seen as a pure and spiritual source of renewal.

As a part of our study we students of the English department, MK Bhavnagar University visited Victoria Park Bhavnagar.

Sem-1 & Sem-3 Students

Victoria Park is one of the popular tourist destinations located in Bhavnagar. This is one of the largest man-made forests. Victoria Park was set up in 1888 by Maharaja Takht Sinhji of Bhavnagar. It was designed under the supervision of counselor Mr. Proctor Sins.

"Stay Close to Nature" is our motto of visit. It was organised by yesha ma'am to make us understand how the romantic poets used to write in the lap of nature. Taking a nature walk is good for the soul, being in nature helps us to feel alive. Nature can generate a multitude of positive emotions, such as calmness, joy, creativity and can facilitate concentration.

Whenever I go to nature, I get lost in a different world. A different world free from pollution, vehicular noise. Who gives me a sense of happiness, peace and joy. It makes me feel better emotionally and as well as it contributes to our physical wellbeing. Being in nature, or even viewing scenes of nature, reduces anger, fear, and stress and increases pleasant feelings. In this visit I also try to understand romanticism. I also reflected on how the romantic poets used to write in the lap of nature.

It was 20 July, we all were so excited because it's our first visit together. Yesha ma'am was with us on this visit. We stayed there for the whole day. It was a really amazing experience. Under the guidance of ma'am we visited observation points. There was an amazing lake in the park. It was a rainy day so we were not able to see animals, But so many peacocks were there, as I say it was a rainy day and peacocks were dancing there. It was a wonderful view and I tried to capture this view.