A comparative study of William Wordsworth's "Home at Grasmere" and Li Bai's "Sitting Alone on Mount Jingting" and "Drinking Alone under the Moon"

Human emotions that stem from their nature are the same in spite of the differences in their nationality, race, gender, educational style, age, etc.; they are also irrelevant to the historical backgrounds, social customs, cultural norms, etc. Humanity is actually about the commonality and interconnectedness of human behavior. These shared emotions are universal in reality, such as, a smile after appreciating the beauty of the sunset, a tear shed while seeing a flower unfolding its petals, or a sigh after the departure of the migratory birds. The core of ecological thinking mode is that everything is connected to everything else. An eco-critical reading of literary works is to transcend these artificial divisions and classifications and to re-establish the internal links among these texts. This work is a comparative study of a British Romantic poet William Wordsworth's poem and a Chinese Romantic poet Li Bai's poem from an ecological perspective. Through textual analysis, it intends and tries to highlight the internal link between the poems of these two poets by adopting an ecological stance. In the meantime, it also attempts to shed light on the perception of Romanticism by discussing the selected texts relevant to this concept within an international scope (both the East and the West). There are not enough detailed examples in the current literature to illustrate the identical application of similar poetics, themes, implications in British Romantic poems and Chinese Romantic poems. Therefore, this work tries to bridge the gap by emphasizing these writing techniques applied (i.e. the pathetic fallacy, perspective-taking, and personification) and the topics (e.g. loneliness/solitude, the non-human environment, home, connection, etc.) touched upon in the texts.