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Romantic Poets & Nature, 1997.
Examines theme of return to nature in works by Wordsworth, Colerige, Byron, Shelley & Keats.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 1 source, $ 79.95
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" The Theme of Return to Nature in Poets of the Romantic Age
Introduction
The theme of the need for a return to Nature is a predominant theme during the Romantic Age. Each of the major poets of the Age employ the theme as a vehicle for demonstrating a movement toward self-knowledge. However, the employment of the theme is usually for the purpose of elaborating on a possibly more significant theme in Romantic poetry--the workings of the human mind. Each poet employs the theme in different ways to accentuate his or her overlying premise of the need for reflection and thought.
William Wordsworth appears to be the "Father" of the employment of the theme in the sense that his use of the theme seems the most complete and deliberate. Nonetheless, the poetry.."
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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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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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Concept Of Nature In Dickinson And Emerson, 2002.
Analysis of poet Emily Dickinson's view of nature & Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas on nature.
4,275 words (approx. 17.1 pages), 10 sources, $ 135.95
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Analysis of poet Emily Dickinson's view of nature & Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas on nature. Emerson's transcendental notion of the unity of nature, humanity and God. Dickinson's image of nature as antagonistic and mysterious. Discusses several poems by Dickinson. Emerson's conception of nature & the poet's role in understanding nature.
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The relationship between Emily Dickinson's poetry and Ralph Waldo Emerson's ideas on nature and the poet's function is very complex. Despite Emerson's great influence on the poet and the similarity of their conceptions of the poet's role early in Dickinson's career she was eventually to go beyond his light-filled, hopeful conception of the relationship between humanity and nature in her concentration on the questions of loss and death that cast not just human existence but all of nature in a wholly different light. Dickinson did, of course, write many poems that reflected Emerson's Transcendental notion of the unity of humanity, nature, and god. But Emerson's was ultimately a serene conception in which the means of transcendence resided in that relationship among the aspects of creation--nature mediated, he believed, between humanity and deity. Even though Emerson
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Elizabeth Bishop, Marianne Moore and CK Williams, 2000.
An examination of the three poets' use of nature, styles, techniques and themes.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 31.95
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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. Nature was elevated to a high position by the Romantic poets, but poets before that time used nature as well. 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.
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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. Nature was elevated to a high position by the Romantic poets, but poets before that time used nature as well. 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. 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. Each shows ways in which form mirrors content, reflecting in some fashion an organic sense of both nature and language, and each also shows a certain self-consciousness about being a poet and being linked to a poetic tradition."
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The Lessons of Nature Poetry, 2009.
This paper looks at the inspiration of nature and discusses that moral lessons and reflections on society have always been a staple of poetry.
1,655 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 53.95
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In this article, the writer notes that for many poets nature has always been a source of material and maintains that nature has always played a big part in the inspiration of many writers. The writer points out that inspiration is drawn from the peacefulness, the majesty, the grandeur, or maybe even the violence. Many people never take the time to reach deeper into the poem and explore the lessons contained within it. The writer discusses that because nature is such an inspiration for writers it is only natural that the writers may tend to project their own thoughts and ideas into the nature described in their poems. The writer looks at particular examples in different poems and concludes that poets tend to try to subtly teach their reader a moral lesson within their poems. It may not be at the forefront of the poem, yet under the exterior layers one begins to see the lesson unfold.
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"Whitman feels that if humans could perhaps be a bit more like animals that many of the world's problems would not be a consideration. We can see that Whitman admires the animals for their lack of dissatisfaction with the problems surrounding them. They simply deal with them and move on; no words of complaint, no attempts to justify or rectify them. Whitman sees much of himself in these animals. He feels more of a kindred-spirit with them than with his fellow man. This can be taken at face value or it can be applied to and looked at in the context of society. Whitman feels that humanity is heading down the wrong path by their actions and feelings. He feels that if we were just a bit more like animals that maybe society would begin to mirror that of nature."
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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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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 in Poems by Frost, Marlowe and Thomas, 2001.
A description of how nature is used and to what effect in poems by these poets.
780 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper looks at three poems by three different authors ?Fern Hill? by Dylan Thomas, ?Birches? by Robert Frost, and Christopher Marlowe?s ?The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.? The writer looks at the use of nature in each poem and shows that while each poet has a different purpose, all three choose in their poems to focus on joy in life rather than despair, and use the beauty of nature to justify their optimism.
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"Robert Frost is perhaps the most obvious of the deliberate optimists. He looks at birch trees that have nearly been killed by ice storms and instead sees the beauty. He knows logically that the trees are gracefully curved to the ground by nature?s destructive forces. He says, ??They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves: You may see their trunks arching in the woods Years afterwards, trailing their leaves on the ground??
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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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Nature in Literature, 2006.
Examines the works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and Jane Austen and discusses how they addressed the concept of nature.
4,765 words (approx. 19.1 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 122.95
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This paper looks at the three writers of the British Romantic period (roughly 1789-1832)-two poets and one novelist. How each of these writers addressed the concept of nature is examined with a detailed discussion of at least one of their works in this connection. The poets are Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats; the novelist is Jane Austen. In order to appreciate the context within which each considered the concept of nature, a general background of the period in which the Romantic period developed is outlined. Each artist is then considered in turn, before some conclusions are put forward.
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"The careers of the three writers being examined were at the culmination of the Romantic period. This was in an age which, following on the series of successful wars that had established British power all over the world, was one of the gloomiest in British history. If in some ways the England of 1800-20 was ahead of the rest of Europe, in others it lagged far behind. The Industrial Revolution, which was to turn Britain from a nation of peasants and traders into a nation of manufacturers, had begun; but its chief fruits as yet were increased materialism and greed, and politically the period was one of blackest reaction."
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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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Nature in Dylan Thomas? Poems., 2001.
A discussion of how Dylan Thomas uses symbols and images of nature in his poems to express how he feels towards death and childhood.
2,631 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 79.95
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This paper analyzes the works of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and how through analysis of some of his poems, two ideas are constantly presented and expressed through the symbolizm of nature. The first is death, viewed as the end of life but at the same time as the beginning of a different type of existence and how all the elements of nature become one with the same essence and soul. The second is childhood when life is pure and innocent just like nature.
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Introduction
Thesis Statement
Thesis Statement Support
Poems Analyzed
Dylan Thomas?s Style
How He Writes
Poem Analysis
?Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?
?And Death Shall Have no Dominion?
?Poem in October?
?Fern Hill?
Conclusion
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"Dylan Thomas uses symbols and images of nature to express how he feels towards death and childhood. Some poems which clearly picture this idea are ?Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?, ?And Death Shall Have No Dominion?, ?Poem In October?, and ?Fern Hill?. In the first two poems there is a contradictory belief of death, as the author Anthony Thwait points outs the end of life and as the beginning of a different kind of existence. The other two pieces of work portray life in the countryside as being similar to heaven and childhood as being the moment when life is pure and innocent, according to the previously mentioned writer."
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Wordsworth and Blake on Nature, 2004.
This paper examines the techniques William Wordsworth and William Blake employ to depict scenes of nature to express their points of view.
1,175 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper discusses that Romantic poets, William Wordsworth and William Blake, express deep concerns for what the Industrial Revolution might mean to the overall condition of man. The author points out that Wordsworth?s poetry, reflecting upon Christian beliefs, often depicts nature as being filled with God. The paper states that Blake?s poetry often reflects positive images of nature in an attempt to point out its beauty.
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"The tone of the poem continues in this manner with the poet considering the powerful force that created the tiger?s sinews, heart, and brain. Essentially, the tiger is a lovely creature but it is also destructive. The poet?s message is that the world is much like that tiger--beautiful, but deadly. The poet is using the tiger as a symbol of man to reinforce the idea that we are all made by God. In addition, he also asks, ?Did he smile his work to see?/Did he who made the Lamb make thee?? (19-20) By using a wild animal from nature, the poet is hinting at the nature of man. This line is intended to make us think about our actions, ourselves and whether God above would be pleased with us."
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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.
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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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