Ecocriticism and William Wordsworth: A Study of Selected Poems

William Rueckert's term "Ecocriticism" coined in 1978 has today evolved into a full-fledged and trending theory. The careful study of the sensitivity of harmonious relationship between man and Nature is the need of the present human kind facing the disastrous pandemic i.e. COVID-19. The ecocritical study is the only way forward to destress the tension and harmonise the man- Nature relationship, by making us realise that Nature matters to us and not we to Nature. This is the fact that humans cannot survive without Nature, but Nature can survive better sans humans. In the world of materialism led by mammon worship man today has forgotten to respect Nature, to sympathise and share, and has regressed into cyborg, piling money and threatening all forms of life on earth. William Wordsworth is a pioneer and grand poet shaking a reader's consciousness and directing him from the life consuming and blind materialistic chase towards Nature and bliss. The present paper endeavours to attempt ecocritical study of William Wordsworth's "The World is Too Much With Us" and "The Solitary Reaper" to counter problems like environmental pollution, pandemics, climate change, global warming, ecological imbalance etc.