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Nature in Poetry, 2008.
A comparative analysis of the forces of nature in the poetry of Charles G. D. Roberts and E. J. Pratt.
1,721 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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The paper examines Roberts' "Tantramar Revisited" and Pratt's "Silences" and reveals the very different, almost opposed representation of nature in their poems. The paper discusses how Roberts conceives of nature as invested with spirituality, while Pratt views nature as something primordial and primitive, in contrast to man's extraordinary spiritual evolution.
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"Charles G. D. Roberts and E. J. Pratt are two of the best known Canadian poets, both belonging roughly to the same late Romantic tradition. Their poetry has often been put side by side, especially due to the major prevalence of nature as a poetic theme in their all their writings. In turns, both Roberts and Pratt have been likened to one of the great English Romantic poets who were their predecessors. Thus, Roberts is indebted to Wordsworth, whom he follows faithfully in most of his work. On the other hand, connections can be found between Pratt's and William's Blake poetry, although in this case the influence may have been less conscious."
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Nature in Poetry, 2002.
Shows how poets Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore and C.K. Williams incorporate the imagery of nature into their works.
971 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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Nature is a source of inspiration for the poet and nature is used for its imagery, for its symbolic meaning and for its role as a powerful force in human life. Many poets show a particular affinity for nature, tending to delve into it as an example of fertility, a connection with the infinite, a symbol of human sexuality, and so on. The paper examines how poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore and C.K. Williams show an affinity for nature and develop images of nature by means of a strong sense of poetic language. It explores how each shows ways in which form mirrors content, reflecting in some fashion an organic sense of both nature and language.
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"Marianne Moore's metrical and linguistic complexity is evident in her poem "The Fish." The title of the poem bleeds directly into the first line to create an opening sentence: "The Fish/ wade/ through black fade." Moore often uses this technique to make the title part of the poem and to set it apart as a symbolic image of all that will follow. Similarly, the end of each stanza remains open, bleeding directly into the beginning of the next stanza. the entire poem is therefore interconnected, as if part of a larger unit. Critic Charles Molesworth identifies the poem as one of Moore's more complicated and says it shows a particular interest of hers: "Moore was very interested in the intersection between nature and culture" (Burgess)."
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Nature in Poetry, 2002.
Examines the differences in expressions of nature in the works of Romantic poets, Wordsworth, Keats, and Coleridge.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 1 source, $ 71.95
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Wordsworth, Keats, and Coleridge wrote extensively on this subject. "Little we see in Nature that is ours" because we don't give Nature anything. Time, to Keats, should be spent appreciating what is in one's life. In Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", we see a different side of nature. The wrath of nature is not pretty. Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Keats maintained a difference in attitude toward the Romantic expression of our human relationship with nature.
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Nature's Demise in the Poetry of Canada, 2002.
Analyzes the theme of urbanization and industrializatoin and its negative consequences found in the poetry of several Canadian poets.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 44.95
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The urbanization and industrialization of Canada brought with them a rise in the thematic importance of technology in the nation's literature. As the negative consequences of these processes began to be seen very clearly, poets increasingly spoke out against the trend in their imaginative work. Nature is typically cast as a formerly exalted and redeeming entity which technology, the sum of man's scientific 'progress', has sullied. Analysing a number of short poems by Lampman, Pratt, Scott, and Birney, this paper will consider the characterisation of nature and technology which, resoundingly, conforms to the notions expressed above.
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Nature in Poetry, 2003.
Examines four poems.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, $ 55.95
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Discusses John Keats's ode "To Autumn" in which he personifies the season; Wallace Stevens's "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", which cites multiple reactions to nature; and John Hollander's "Adam's Task", which addresses the limits of humans.
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"A poet's selection of a particular aspect of the relationship between humanity and nature often directs her/his choice of a mode of address. Various ways of addressing nature are examined here in four very different poems. In his ode To Autumn ..."
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Romantic Poetry and Nature, 2000.
A discussion on how nature was reflected in 19th Century poetry.
1,444 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper discusses the 19th Century understanding of nature, as expressed through poetry. It considers the social and economic causes of these attitudes, and compares them to current trends and ideologies. Several poems are mentioned, including William Blake's "London" and "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth.
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"The political upheaval of the late eighteenth century gave birth to a new period in English thought. Poets, politicians, and philosophers heralded new ideas that directly conflicted with the entrenched social structures. ?It was now known that social revolution was possible, that nations existed as something independent of states, peoples as something independent of their rulers, and even that the poor existed as something independent of the ruling class? (Anthology, 3). Inspired by the American and French Revolutions, English writers criticized social values and protested the effects of the Industrial Revolution."
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Nature in Literature, Drama and Poetry, 2002.
This paper explores how nature is portrayed in different literary works by such authors as Elizabeth Bishop, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jack London, Patrick Meyer, Henry David Thoreau and William Wordsworth.
2,100 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper compares and contrast how nature is portrayed in a variety of literary works. The works included in this paper are Elizabeth Bishop's ?The Fish,? Ralph Waldo Emerson's ?Nature,? Oliver Wendell Holmes's ?The Chambered Nautilus,? and Patrick Meyer?s ?K2," Jack London's "To Build A Fire," Henry David Thoreau's "Walden, Or Life in the Woods" and William Wordsworth''s ?The World is Too Much With Us." Some of the topics discussed include cruelty in nature, man's relationship with nature, the different elements of nature, the Romantic and Transcendentalist view of nature and the true communing of individual soul with nature. The paper concludes with the author tying all of these topics together by illustrating the similarities between human nature and nature itself.
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"Emerson is most concerned about how Emerson sees nature, and would like to see nature better as an American. Emerson does not consider that while observing nature everyone is not only changed internally by nature, whether by cold or by beauty, but also that the observer changes nature itself, even in as simple as something as walking through the perfect and untrodden snow. Just as animal life impacts and is impacted by nature; human beings exist a part of nature and are subject to natural forces. These forces include but are not limited to cold, illness, injury, death, birth, and seasonal extremes. The metaphor of the only observing eyeball denies such an impact."
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Nature in Robert Frost's Poetry, 2008.
A discussion of the figure of nature in Robert Frost's poems "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Never Again Would Bird's Song Be the Same" and "The Oven Bird".
1,985 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper compares the use of the theme of man's relationship to nature in poet Robert Frost's works "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening", "Never Again Would Bird's Song Be the Same" and "The Oven Bird". The paper argues that the poet frequently used images of nature in order to provide a symbolic reference for his message. All three poems indicate a dichotomy between untouched nature and the human influence, as well as separation from the natural world. The paper points out that rapid technological developments during Frost's lifetime caused him great concern. The paper concludes that, according to the poems discussed here, redemption is only possible by a reconnection to nature.
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"Even in this joyous description, the poem is filled with regret. The reader is assumed to know the story of Eve, the fall, and the subsequent banishment from the garden even before reaching the end of the poem. The description of joy itself is therefore also filled with a sense of regret and loss. Regardless of the loss experienced, however, the sense of bittersweet memory remains. The birds are forever influenced by the contact they had with Eve. They regret her loss, and mourn for her, and therefore hold on to her essence in perhaps the vain hope that she might return some day."
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The Poetry of Robert Frost, 2005.
A look at the theme of nature found throughout the poetry of Robert Frost.
1,827 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper shows how Robert Frost uses nature in his poetry to illustrate the conflict between man and nature. The paper uses examples from Frost's poetry to show that it is about how humans come to terms with all aspects of nature and how the relationship between man and nature encourages both solitude and companionship.
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"Robert Frost frequently describes nature in his poems, and for the most part, the conflict between man and nature is evident. Frost seems to be on nature's side as a poet because he is attracted to nature, yet his poetry is about how humans come to terms with all aspects of nature. Frost uses relationships between man and nature to make choices about being alone for the sense of peace in his poetry."
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Nature and Emerson and Dickinson, 2002.
This paper discusses the complex relationship between Emily Dickinson's and Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas on nature as reflected in their poetry.
5,175 words (approx. 20.7 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 129.95
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This author believes that despite Ralph Waldo Emerson's great influence on Emily Dickinson and the similarity of their conceptions of the poet's role, she goes beyond his light-filled, hopeful conception of the relationship between humanity and nature. This paper discusses Emerson's serene conception of nature in which transcendence resides in the relationship between humanity and deity. This paper analyzes several of Dickinson's poems to demonstrate that she was far more skeptical and believed that, no matter how deeply and carefully one might read into nature, it retains its mystery.
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"In "The Rhodora," as Tuerk points out, the speaker's encounter with the flower "immediately results not from his own volition but in response to the sea-winds' piercing" of his solitude (6). The human being, the speaker, is shown at once to be fully entwined with the physical world and apart from it only by virtue of his perceptive and reflective capabilities. Therefore, human activities and the unmotivated natural forces are shown to intermingle. The 'force' of the wind that drives him is equaled, however, by the mere sight of the rhodora and beauty is shown to operate, therefore, as a force with a power perhaps even greater than anything merely physical in nature. The flower is then described in terms of its interaction with its surroundings--spreading, pleasing, dropping its petals, blackening the water, and being courted by the bird that might be attracted by it. This array of beautiful sights draws the speaker's attention in much the same way that it might eventually attract the imaginary bird."
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Wordsworth and Nature, 2001.
A look at the poet William Wordsworth and his attitude towards nature in his poetry.
1,300 words (approx. 5.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper examines the poet's writing styles and shows how we are so accustomed to thinking of William Wordsworth as the quintessential Romantic poet ? a man in love with the idea of a simple life lived close to nature ? that we are apt to overlook the fact that his relationship with nature is in fact a somewhat ambivalent one, or at least a complex one.
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"While Wordsworth will always be known for the clarity and undiluted Romanticism of ?Tintern Abbey?, to assume that his stance vis-?-vis nature in this poem constitutes an adequate description of all of his connections to and understandings of the external world does him a disservice. To do so would be to equate his passion for the natural world and the necessity of direct human connection to nature for a simple-minded sort of tendency to ramble on about beauty. Rather, if we look beyond ?Tintern Abbey? to the whole body of his work, we came to a fuller understanding of the ways in which he embraced the human as well as the natural world around him. ?St. Paul?s?, a poem that Wordsworth penned in 1808 but never published, is an excellent instrument to use through which to discover the complex worldview of this poet."
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Exalting Nature, 2004.
An analysis of the use of poetry to exalt nature, with reference to poets Stevie Smith, Margaret Walker, Alexander Pope, 'Abd Allah ibn al-Simak and Pat Lowther.
1,158 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper contends that poets vary in their views on nature. The paper discusses how Stevie Smith in the poem "Alone in the Woods" uses anger to convey man's destruction of nature and how Margaret Walker in her piece "My Mississippi Spring" conveys nature as if it were the most beautiful thing they have ever experienced or beyond carnal experience. The paper explains how other poets choose to personify it or give it some type of unimaginable quality or symbolic meaning. The poets discussed in the paper (Stevie Smith, Margaret Walker, Alexander Pope, 'Abd Allah ibn al-Simak and Pat Lowther) tend to all mean for the better of nature but all use different techniques. The paper explores how the poets use different themes such as anger and different techniques such as diction or personification, but all arrive at the main idea of exalting nature.
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"Stevie Smith in the poem Alone in the Woods personifies the woods "Nature has taught her creatures to hate" (line 3). By personifying the woods she can now illustrate anger or "bitter hostility with words using the woods as the one angry at the human race. "As the sap paints the trees a violent green so rises the wrath of Natures creatures At man" (lines 4, 5, & 6). Further along Smith continues fortifying the his technique and idea on lines eleven through eighteen "Nature is sick at man, Sick at his fuss and fume, Sick at his agonies, Sick at his gaudy mind, That drives his body, Ever more quickly, More and more, in the wrong direction" (lines 11-18). Smith uses short lines and repetition which reaffirms his angry view on mans destruction of nature. On the other hand poets like Alexander Pope in his work An Essay on Man (epistle 1) display or convey anger but not from nature, he puts comes out and openly and describes man. Pope gives the idea that man is very possessive, Pope uses six possessive pronouns such as "Tis for mine...for me"(Pope 1-10). "
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Poetic Views of the Natural World, 2005.
A look at the differing relationships of males and females to the natural world in poetry.
1,786 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper cites examples from the poetry of Lord Byron, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Elizabeth Bishop to illustrate the male/female dichotomies of meaning in relationship to the natural world that have been a part of the female poet's experience throughout Western culture.
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"The idea of women as nature is perhaps most obviously expressed in George Gordon, Lord Byron's poem: "She Walks in Beauty like the Night." This poem is an extended simile, or comparison between the women of the title and the night of the natural world. "She walks in beauty like the night/Of cloudless climes and starry skies;" begins the verse. The woman of Byron's lyric is like the night because her beauty is muted, not gaudy. Her loveliness is, "Thus mellow'd to that tender light" of the moon, rather than the sun because she is a brunette. Her temperament is reflected in her appearance, just as her appearance becomes synonymous with nature over the course of the poem. Byron's poem, although lyrical in its tone, and beautiful in its easy ebb and flow of words also is highly conventional in its rendition of female, dark beauty, noting the subject's raven tresses, for example, like the darkness of the night. Her hair cascades in "waves," like dark water, the poet notes, again equating the natural world's beauties with mute, feminine beauty."
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Edwin Morgan's Poetry, 2003.
This paper analyzes the diversity of voice in Edwin Morgan's poetry and the nature of authorial voice in general.
2,392 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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The paper discusses how Edwin Morgan assumes a false persona in his poetry. In particular, the paper discusses the issue of the authorial voice, that is the voice or speaker used by the author when s/he seemingly speaks for her/himself. The paper looks at how the notion of authorial voice is understood by twentieth-century critics and illustrated in Morgan's poetry.
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"Critics attempting to encapsulate the poetry of Edwin Morgan in a single term soon find themselves bewildered. His position as the most eminent contemporary poet in Scotland is, indeed, largely due to his enthusiastic multiplicity, in terms of language--Morgan has translated works from Russian, German, French, and even Hungarian--but also in terms of poetic devices. With some cubist restlessness, Morgan has created and abandoned techniques of his own devising: emergent poetry, performance and concrete poetry, instamatics, newspaper cut-outs and even wordless poems. Indeed, his awareness that language is a living and cleverly intelligent tool with which you can play gives rise in his poetry to a prodigious diversity of voices."
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Robert Frost and Nature, 2007.
An analysis of nature as portrayed in Robert Frost's poetry.
3,158 words (approx. 12.6 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 91.95
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The paper discusses Robert Frost's view of nature, stating that, while he usually sees nature as a dangerous adversary, this is because he is commenting on the human condition and the material world. However, Frost has his moments of spiritual inspiration when nature produces some wondrous effect that transforms him and transports him into bliss. The paper explains that such experiences bring a new understanding of the self.
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"Robert Frost did not want to be known as a "nature poet." He said many times, "I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems" (Frost Friends web site, 1). Two rare exceptions are "Spring Pools" and "A Winter Eden," but even those poems are not about nature. They are about the notion of perfection. The spring pools are described as "almost without defect" while a snow scene is portrayed as "paradise."
On the other hand, "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," which is frequently read as a nature poem, really has very little nature in it. Frost says the woods "are lovely, dark and deep" and then immediatly turns away from them because the poem is not about the woods."
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