"Natural World"

The “Natural World” in my opinion is anything and everything that exists without the assistance of mankind. The natural world in and of itself consists of all the elements of life that create their own existence. By this, I mean natural world will exist forever and beyond the births and deaths of our species.
Blake believes in the natural world in the eyes of the inexperienced (innocent) as well as in the eyes of the experienced. In the Songs of Innocence, Blake expresses the nature of innocence through his poem “Introduction.” In this poem Blake shows how the children have not been tainted by the outside world as they dance around and sing without knowing what’s to come. In the “Divine Image,” Blake explains 4 feelings directly associated with innocence. Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love are 4 characteristics that exist in each of our souls, yet the more naïve and innocent part of us tend to believe in these feelings more so than the experienced. It is to say, we are all born with this innocence and it is a natural part of us that exists within our souls and bodies. Mercy dwells in our heart, Pity is expressed in our faces, Love is the human body in and of itself and Peace lives outside of us.
Blake expresses how nature can turn innocence into experience in the Songs of Experience. At first we are born these innocent creatures and know nothing of the experienced world around us. We grow with the natural world and begin to realize there is more to life than the innocence that we were born with. In “A Divine Image,” Blake explains the 4 feelings directly associated with experience. Cruelty, Jealousy, Terror and Secrecy are 4 characteristics that exist in each of our souls, but we do not experience these feelings until we are older and more experienced. Here Blake iterates how Cruelty dwells in our heart instead of Mercy as in the innocent, Jealously is expressed in our faces, Terror is the human body in and of itself and Secrecy lives outside of us.There is a big contrast between these two sets of poem by Blake but they both describe how we interact in the natural world between Innocence and Experience.
Wordsworth is a romantic who uses the beauty of nature to emphasize his ideas on romanticism. He writes about landscaping and scenery that exist in our “natural world” and in turn reveal romantic moods and tones in his writing. Wordsworth describes nature in his poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern by Abby, “ by focusing on the landscaping and scenery to express the peacefulness of nature. He expresses the happiness and cheerfulness of nature in his poem, “London, 1802.”