Wordsworth, a Mystic-cum-Environmentalist: Ecological Concerns in His Poetry

Abstract

Ecology is the branch of biology that involves study of an ecosystem and deals with the relations between different components of the environment with each other and with the environment as a whole. It is the study of interdependence and interrelation of living and non-living components of the universe. Man is a great extraordinary entity of the universe. A body of flesh and blood, he breathes air, consumes food and satisfies basic needs of life through nature. The nature being part and parcel of his existence he has an inseparable bond with it. The study of nature includes all creations of the universe-- living and non-living, from air to earth, and space to scenes. All the geographical features of the earth evince the meaning of nature.