Mythologizing
Mythologizing occurs when a specific issue or its subject is transformed into a myth. Creating or promoting an exaggerated or idealized image of any topic is also included. Myths are important in living. (Fromm 12). In order to answer people's challenging concerns, they are frequently tales that are significant to a specific culture or species. The mythologies are thus tales that have been passed down through the ages to address these problems, and the majority of those who tell them hold them to be true. Consequently, a mythic tale often has deep roots. They most likely lived before there was art, language, or writing. They date back countless years. They tell the thinking patterns of individuals since time immemorial.
Great Works of Literature
All great works of literature are usually based on mythic themes and stories. Therefore, they allow for the passing down of information from one generation to the next. Since they are majorly based on imagination and creativity, they spark thinking among individuals as they seek to identify if the stories are true. Myths are therefore a powerful tool for psychology as they cast light on the unconsciousness of individuals. There is no deeper way to understand the thinking patterns of a quality than to tell them old and untrue stories and seek for an explanation from them. Mythologizing makes people interesting (Fromm 20).
How Mythologizing Nature Can Save Humans from Industrialism
Industrialism is a social or economic system that is built on manufacturing industries. Industrialism has been on the rise in the past few years and has a major negative effect on nature. Therefore, it is seen as the darkness of the new world, which human beings need to be saved from. Pollution of the environment is a major to effect of industrialism. Individuals in the new world are living on polluted land, drinking harmful water, breathing harmful air and using contaminated soil. Pollution mainly comes from the waste products of the industries, which are not disposed of in the right ways. Words worthy poetry liken pollution of the environment by industrialism to the youthfulness of individuals, which comes and goes at a particular time. In the eighty-fourth lines, he says that the time is past when nature was appealing to him (Wordsworth and Gill 23). He says the mountains, the tall rocks, and the dark wood would bring a feeling of love to him in the past, but now no more. He now looks at nature in the hour of youthfulness and realizes that it is all gone.
The Immune River
The poet says in his fourth line that the river is not affected by the tides a few miles above Tintern (Wordsworth and Gill 25). He mythologizes the river by insinuating that it is not prone to any harmful effects that are caused by individuals. The river stands for the water in the modern day. It may be seen as unique to pollution and that despite what it is exposed to, then it will not be affected. After complaining that the youthfulness of nature feels like it is gone, the poet still mythologizes nature by stating some of its aspects that can never be lost. In the ninety-ninth lines, he talks of the setting sun, the round ocean, the blue sky, and the living air. In fact, he gives life to the air and says that all these aspects give motion to man and his spirit. Therefore, although nature may be polluted, it still can make the life of man worthwhile and enjoyable.
Nature's Powers
The poet gives powers to nature and in line; one hundred and one of the poem says that nature is like the guardian of his heart and soul (Wordsworth 45). He says that nature is like an anchor of his purest thoughts, like a nurse or a comforter of his completely moral being. The ability of nature to have such effect on individuals is a myth. It means that regardless of what industrialism does to spoil life, it will still recover and even have a way to anchor the right feelings of individuals. Therefore, in some sense, it will save them from the negativity of industrialism because of its innate ability to make things right irrespective of circumstances.
Nature's Betrayal
Industrialism leads to extraction of resources from nature. The high the growth of industrialism, the greater the chances that natural resources will be depleted fast. The poet says in line one hundred and twenty-three that nature never betrayed the heart that loves it (Wordsworth, Selected Poems 46). He likens it to a friend and a sister and says that it is a privilege to enjoy nature. Nature, in turn, feeds with quietness and beauty such hearts. He says that it is full of blessings and this cheerfulness prevails against all disturbances. Such kind of an appearance of nature is mythical. However, it is still able to protect the individuals that love it in the rise of industrialism. Love for nature is demonstrated in conserving it, reducing wastage, and disposing of it in the right ways, preserving natural resources and establishing industries in the appropriate places. When some individuals can demonstrate such love for nature, it will reflect the same kindness despite the growing number of industries across the world.
Worshipper of Nature
The poet refers himself as a worshipper of nature in line one hundred and fifty-three. As he concludes the poem, he ponders on the moon, the mistiness of the moon and the blowing of the wind. He says he loves the sound and feels of each one of them after all the years. He likens the feeling he gets from the wind as a sense of ecstasy, which has matured over time. It is like a mansion of lovely forms in his mind and the memory of each of them a dwelling place. What a way to describe the unchangeable attribute of nature. Despite what happens over time to nature, it still has this way of bringing lovely memories to the life of people. They would be likened to a dwelling place. As such, the people can escape into them when industrialism brings darkness into their world.
Healing Thoughts of Nature
The poet says that when in fear, pain, solitude, or grief, he thinks about the healing thoughts of nature (Wordsworth 46). Standing on the banks of a delightful stream makes him experience a warm love from life. He says that he is even more unperturbed from his love by this feeling and it only raises a deeper zeal to experience the love that life brings to him. In his last sentence, he says that the green pastoral landscape is so dear to both him and nature itself. The mythical love that is brought about nature is extraordinary. Love is an attribute that human beings feel for each other. It does not end, and it makes people live in harmony. When nature is given such an attribute, it means that it can save humans from the darkness of industrialism.
Works Cited
Fromm, Erich. Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths. New York: Open Road Integrated Media, 2013. Print.
Wordsworth, William and Stephen Gill. The Major Works. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Print.
Wordsworth, William. Selected Poems. New York: Gramercy Books, 1993. Web.
