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Table of Contents • Introduction --- Page 3 • Transcendentalism --- Page 5 • Robert Frost --- Page 7 • “After Apple Picking” --- Page 10 • Modernism --- Page 12 • W.B. Yeats --- Page 14 • “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” --- Page 16 • Romanticism --- Page 18 • Robert W. Service --- Page 20 • “My Cancer Cure” --- Page 22 • Works Cited --- Page 25 • Images Cited --- Page 28
Introduction “Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.” --- Charles Cook, Awakening to Nature, 2001 Life and Nature exist simultaneously, no matter what the medium is or location. Life is what makes Nature grow, but Nature is what gives us Life. One completes the other, no matter who the person is, or where the Nature grows. The three poets and poems selected for this anthology reflect on what Nature means to them, as well as their interpretations on Life‟s relationship to Nature. Natural poetry does not always have to be about how beautiful a flower is or the sound of birds. It is more than that. It embraces everything all at once; the wind whistling through the trees, the sun rising and setting over the land exposing the farmer‟s harvest, the sensation you get when the person of subject interacts with the nature as if they are one person. Poems are not about what is on the surface; they are about what lies beneath the words and its hidden meaning. Poems that include these side-by-side themes are filled with interpretations, metaphors, personification, symbolism, and so on, and that is what makes them so powerful and meaningful. Interpretations and hidden meanings were not the main point for early nature poetry. The use of Natural poetry back in the 3 rd Century started when “the Greek poet Theocritus began writing idylls…to glorify and honor the simplicity of rural life” (“Nature Poems”). Some modern poets, like W.B. Yeats, are able to incorporate hints of this glorified rural life with symbolism and human life into their poems.
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Page 5 and 6: Transcendentalism American Transcen
Page 7 and 8: Robert Frost Robert Frost was born
Page 9 and 10: Robert Frost Even though Frost did
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Page 13 and 14: Modernism Though it is usually clea
Page 15 and 16: W.B. Yeats The turning point from I
Page 17 and 18: Title 2 1 st stanza 4, 5, 8, 10 6,
Page 19 and 20: Romanticism There is also a spiritu
Page 21 and 22: Robert W. Service After years of li
Page 23 and 24: 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Page 25 and 26: Works Cited Booth, Alison, and Kell
Page 27 and 28: Works Cited Reuben, Paul P. "Chapte
Page 29 and 30: • Slide 8: Images Used Old Robert

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