The Gig Economy and its Impact on Traditional Human Resource Management: A Study of Food Delivery Platforms in Urban India
Syed Imran Thaseer
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Government First, Grade College and Pg Study Centre,
Gadag -582102, Karnataka
Keywords: Romanticism, Nature, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats,Sublime, Beautiful, Ecocriticism, Industrial Revolution, Imagination, Pantheism.
Abstract
This paper says that British Romantic poets wrote about nature in a new way, as we all know their time was very different.From late eighteenth century to mid nineteenth century, they were reacting to too much focus on logic and machines. Because of the Enlightenment ideas and fast industrial growth, people felt cut off from nature. So these poets started seeing nature not just as background scenery, but as an active and living force in human life. Earlier poetry showed nature as calm and fixed, but Romantics made it central to feelings and thinking. This study looks at how nature worked in their poems. It became a guide for spiritual and moral thinking, especially when religion was becoming weaker. It also helped them talk about beauty and fear, like the sublime. Nature was used to reflect human emotions, joys, pain, and confusion, which is commonly seen in Indian people connecting feelings with nature too. It also became a way to question industrial society and dream of change. By reading poems of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron, this paper shows that their love for nature was not escape from reality. It was a strong response to the damage caused by machines and cold reasoning. In the end, this study says that their ideas still influence literature and environmental thinking today, and this green thinking continues to matter even now.
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Published
01-03-2026