Nature is a common aspect in the renaissance's poems and Abraham Cowley is one of the poets who were really devoted to nature. He considered nature as his source of inspiration because, he's also an agriculturere. In his poem "The Wish" Cowley appears as a nature protector and lover. He has a wish, which is to live alone with nature and far away from city and people. He explained his wish in five stanzas; in each stanza he gives nature, which is the countryside, a beautiful image.
In the first stanza Cowley criticize the city and describe it as a hive, in the way that you love to see it from a distance but when you get nearer to it you get hurt by the bees" stings. City is similar to the hive in the crowed buzzing and murmuring. Cowley also thinks that city people deserve his pity for they"re enduring the bees" stings, which are the murmuring, crowed and buzz.
In the first sentence of the second stanza, Cowley described countryside as a grave, for most city people think it's like that, because of the lack of modernization. Well he says let me live in that grave happily better that living in the city. Then he clarifies his wish after the gloomy introduction about city in the first stanza, which is some how a reason of his wish. He wishes to be in nature with books and friends. We always connect books and best friends, and Cowley gives the description of honest and wise to those chosen friends and books and he completes his image with a lover which is nature. So Cowley's wish is completed now, honest friends, wise books, and loving nature.
In the following stanza, Cowley explains more why nature he wants to be in not anywhere else. In short words nature, with all of its elements, is a wealthy restful place. For example, a fountain is a place where any one can go to get some rest peacefully. Moreover, of springheads, waterfalls, floods water, they flood pleasure for all people. Finally , nature is wealthy , and it's treasure , the reason of it's wealth , is not hidden like people hide their treasures , it's lying there every where on it in different shapes like woods , fields , etc .
