Literature, Culture and Environment: A Reflection on Lost Nature in Selected Poems

Literature has always reflected the time in which it is written. The poems selected for this study show a deep connection between humans and nature during the Romantic and Victorian periods. This paper draws upon selected poems by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Gerard Manley Hopkins to understand how poetry expresses environmental awareness through culture and art. While reading these poems today, it becomes clear that the kind of nature the poets described is slowly disappearing from our lives. This paper studies how poetry connects culture, art, and environment, while also reflecting on how modern society has lost touch with nature. The poems help us understand environmental values, the role of art as awareness, the importance of conservation, and traditional sustainable ways of living.