As an icon of Romantic era poetry, Samuel Taylor Coleridge explored the idea of exultation of nature. Which of the following lines from "Kubla Kahn" best portray this Romantic theme?
As if this earth in fast think pants were breathing / A mighty fountain momently was forced
That with music loud and long/ I would build that dome in air
O Down the green hill athwart a cedarn coverl / A savage placel As holy and enchanted
In Xanadu did Kubla Kahn / A stately pleasure dome decree
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wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human

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