This paper is inspired by a brief yet inspiring discussion with a senior academician who gave me a fresh insight into poetry. As I lamented about the freshness and sublimity of nature poetry of romantic poets especially Wordsworth and wondered how he managed such fertility of imagination and painted the pictures of benign nature, she encouraged me to look at contemporary writers like Ted Hughes who are equally capable to creating picture images in our mind while talking about the power of nature. That was a shift in my perspective towards nature poetry written by contemporary poets. This chance meeting challenged me to compare and analyze how the poets of these two genres approach nature. This paper envisages to explore the world of poetry of both the poets with special reference to nature.