Child Image in Thomas Traherne s Poetry

The child s entrance into the wondrous communion with creation is the beginning of gifts, the first thing which God bestows to every infant. Distracting a child s senses towards adult, vain opinion and custom is a bereavement that spoils the child s native ability to perceive knowledge about his true nature. To make the point positively, a child s moral formation should be accomplished in continuation with his knowledge of creation and his natural place in it. Traherne is sure that by curiously and physically entering into nature and focusing on it, the child is able to be aware of the influences of his entity, and his virtues. The natural world actually talks to the child. Nature like skies, air, and stars are his tutors. The child s nature is essentially good, cooperative and caring. Natural environment provides a meaningful context in which a child can be formed in the appropriate way. The child should stick to his essence which is godly, follow nature, avoid sinister and deceptive appearance of earthly life in order to regain paradise and be united with God again.

کلیدواژه ها:

Thomas Traherne s poetry ، Child Image ، Wonder ، Innocence ، Salutation ، Centuries of Meditations