Far from the Maddening Crowd in the Selected Poems of William Wordsworth

Abstract

The research work projects the concept that human happiness and wellbeing depends nature’s wellbeing. Wordsworth goes far from the maddening crowd and employs nature in his poems and demonstrates how human beings engaged with nature leads to pleasure and knowledge. The major idea of this research is to examine how nature is the source of life that brings harmony, joy, inspiration of life to sorely humanity. Examining through ecocritical perspective, this research takes into account the importance of the reciprocal relationship between man and nature as the major constituents of a vast ecosystem and helps the readers grow ecologically and achieve tranquility in an era suffocated by technological pollution. The research comes to the point that it’s the interconnectivity between nature and human beings that gives harmony and solace to already maddened humanity.