"A Singer Of Nature" And "A Worshiper Of Nature"

Wordsworth, who is the main founder of English Romantic poetry in the 19th century, is called by Shelly "a singer of Nature" . Xu Zhimo, one of the main poets who create Chinese new poetry in the 20th century, calls himself "a worshiper of Nature" . They both love and sing the praise of nature, and concern about nature's influence on human soul. They express similar opinions on the relationships between nature and childhood, nature and life, and nature and human society in their poems and proses. Xu Zhimo is much influenced by the western romantic poets, especially Wordsworth. That's the reason why Xu Zhimo forms very similar conception of nature as Wordsworth's. But Chinese traditional culture and literature affects Xu Zhimo profoundly as well, and therefore, Xu Zhimo's conception of nature is still different from Wordworth's.This thesis compares Wordsworth's conception of nature with Xu Zhimo's. The purpose of the comparison is to learn better Xu Zhimo's conception of nature, and then to further understand his character and morals, his works and his thoughts. The whole thesis includes three sections. The beginning section, which is the introduction of the thesis, first introduces the researches which have been done on thecomparison of Wordsworth and Xu Zhimo, then gives the aim and purport of the thesis,- and then talks about the studying method. The middle section is the main text. In this section, historical backgrounds and personal experiences are first stated because they have the relationship with the forming of Wordsworth's and Xu Zhimo's conceptions of nature. The next part of this section respectively expatiates on Wordsworth's and Xu Zhimo's conceptions of nature; and the third part of this section concludes similarities and differences between Wordsworth's and Xu Zhimo's conceptions of nature, then analyzes the sources of the similarities and differences. The last section is the conclusion of the thesis.