THE ROMANTIC CONCEPTS OF NATURE IN THE POETRY OF HENRY DEROZIO (Pages 01-09) by Bhavdip Chavda in THE ENGLISH INDIA / ISSN: 2321-1172 (Online); 2347-2634 (Print)

The term ‘Nature’ has more or less but always been used in each domain of knowledge from ancient to present time with its specific connotations. In literature, Nature, in fact, does not restrain to a particular meaning. It is open for multiple interpretations. Most of the poets and authors rendered Nature as a non-artificial world which is existed as a whole including Man and other things as parts of it. It is contradictory when it includes description of artificial world of Man. These descriptions of Nature assure not only its particular meaning but also various aspects related. The great poets of English have hardly neglected Nature in their art of poesy. It has been at an apex in the discussion when comes to the Romantics. In India, the description of Nature in poetry is no exceptional. H L V Derozio, the first poetic genius of India, portrays Nature in his utmost poetry in Romantic vein. His passions and gist are not only clearly represented Nature but it has also supplemented them. With the chef d’oeuvre, Fakeer of Jungheera, his poems like The Harp of India, Evening in August, Morning after a Storm, A Walk by Moonlight, Night, Ada, To the Moon, To the Rising Moon and so on marked an inception in Indian poetry in English and so is the case with Nature. The seeds by following Romantic poets and their ideologies. This paper endeavours to study and explore these poems to highlight the influence of Romantics on the concepts of Nature