NATURE: "Earth's Immeasurable Surprise": Larkin in Comparison with Wordsworth and Robert Frost.

Larkin carves a niche as a poet of nature as he treats nature as the source for fragile happiness in his contact with nature. He does not recall the events of his contact with nature. As a nature poet, he marks a clear-cut difference between Wordsworth and Robert Frost. Nature is plentiful with its beauty in variety for the gaiety of onlookers. Poets look at nature and react to it in diverse ways. Some poets like Wordsworth worship nature, giving it the status of divinity. Some poets like Robert Frost treat nature as the source for rejuvenation on their momentary contact with nature. Some poets like Philip Larkin enjoy the beauty in nature for a little while and shares the plight of transient lives of leaves and flowers. He observes cyclic changes in nature and sympathies with the pathetic plight of the non-human world. He shares the suffering of animals, birds, and other objects of nature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]