English Poetry - My Inspiration

Life the most precious gift of God, needs to be spent in a very meaningful and dignified manner. But in modern times, the quality of life has been deteriorating consistently. Man has been engulfed into this mechanical world. Machine was made to be a slave of man but in turn enslaved man himself. Ourlifestyle needs to be changed urgently. And a very important guide for this is nothing else but English poetry. The poets like Keats, Wordsworth and others conveyed their message through Nature. Wordsworth has rightly lamented:

"The world is too much with us; late and soon
Getting and Spending we lay waste our powers

Little we see in nature that is ours"

Nature possesses tremendous beauty, what we need is a discerning eye. Living in close harmony with Nature will solve most of the problem of human beings, which are connected with their materialism. Keats could find grandeur even in the season of autumn which, otherwise, is used to symbolize old age and decay. It was Keats who calls:

"Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness"

The relationship with Nature is such in which we are never betrayed:

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

Life is such a wonderful thing, it should not be wasted on the trivialities of this world:

"Let us then be up and doing
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait."
(H.W.Longfellow)

A man after death is known, rather remembered, for his golden deeds. As Longfellow's profoundly true lines convey:

"Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime
And departing leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time."