Compare Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth with John Constable s
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Compare "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" by William Wordsworth
with John Constable's The Hay Wain and Cloud Study
Wordsworth and Constable were both very emotional men that shared a similar romance for nature. They both believed that God was everywhere in nature. Matthews and Platt wrote, "Constable's landscapes, like Wordsworth's poetry, reflected the sense of God's universal presence in nature" (Western Humanities 480). I think that they are similar on many different levels. I feel like they felt the same way about nature, god, freedom, and they were making the same points whether it be in a poem or a painting.
Cloud Study is a little different than The Hay Wain. I think he had a different purpose for this painting than just trying to capture a peaceful and tranquil nature. As written in our text, "Constable's cloud studies echoed Romantic poets, like Goethe and Wordsworth, who identified clouds as a symbol of various themes, such as loneliness and the fleeting quality of life" (Matthews and Platt, Western Humanities 481). I don't think he painted this picture to show us peacefulness and tranquility like in The Hay Wain. I think in this painting he was concentrating on depicting nature for how it should really be seen or at least how he thought it should be seen...