Question: How has your understanding of the concept 'The Wild' been enhanced through your study of your class texts’? The concept of nature is how nature has the ability to be seen as a source of inspiration, reflection and renewal. The concept is profoundly displayed through the persuasive literature of poems and visual emotive effects of films. Ultimately the texts have reshaped, translated and revolutionised the concept of nature. Nature through diverse texts is deeply analysed and the concept is challenged and explored making personal, social and political comments on nature through strong, persuasive techniques and understandings to shape the reader’s view.
The theory of ontology, a branch of metaphysics, is concerned with the nature and relations of being (Meriam-Webster, 2015). Not only is it concerned with these relations, it also explores what kinds of things exist, and more specifically, what entities there are in the universe. Henry Thoreau held the belief that everything changes, but the foundation of reality is eternal. He was an ardent lover of all things “natural”, and this led him to understand how diverse and complex the natural world reveals itself to be. It would be accurate to accept that because Thoreau noticed the beauty of nature and its life-giving potential, this changed his entire perception of who the human being is (Ruehl, 2015).
Inspired by a retreat into the Swiss Alps, Shelley constructs her text in the setting of the nature-rich Geneva. Personal reflection and healing is achieved through the medium of nature for the central characters of Victor, the Monster and Walton. Victor himself states, “the magnificence and sublimity of my surrounding afforded me the greatest consolation I could receive.” The importance of the sublime is a reflection of the growing contextual concern of urbanisation and the industrial revolution. The overwhelming
One major theme used in the book “Of Mice And Men” by John Steinbeck is nature. This theme is used at both the start and end of the book, for various reasons. Nature is obviously interlinked with imagery, used on a range of occasions in the book. Both nature and imagery are in cooperation with each other to bring up hints of future events, or to create a mood, and even to predestine Lennie’s and George’s future in the novel. In the book there are two main paragraphs in which Steinbeck describes nature, the first paragraph in the first chapter and the first paragraph in the last chapter.
Nature The earth is full of this beautiful nature. Surrounding ourselves with amazing creatures, plants, and much more. Just how there is so much in nature that we have and enjoy there is also the taking care of it and appreciating it more than usual. There are three authors who wrote and really pointed out their own nature. Seeing by Annie Dillard, An Entrance to the Woods by Wendell Berry, and The Courage of the Turtles by Edward Hoagland are essays written for the purpose to identify and search the meaning of what nature really is to them.
Sturts (the famous explorers) perspective and the Aborigines (the indigenous peoples) perspective. The ideas and language in the poem conveys the reality of their thoughts. We notice that both perspectives point of view differ based on their background knowledge and understanding of their world and its concepts. In Stanza 1, line 1 we are introduced to captain Charles Sturt. “ Charlotte called him…Charlies dear” stating the connection he has between him and his wife.
All three poems, ‘Haymaking’, ‘Shearing at Castlereagh’ and ‘The Chimney Sweeper’, explore the idea of work in very different ways. ‘Haymaking’ and ‘Shearing at Castlereagh’ both focus upon the idea of work creating a sense of fulfilment in life and both use positive imagery to reflect this idea, whereas ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ offers a different approach to the presentation of work, in that it is portrayed in a negative and somewhat upsetting manner. In ‘Haymaking’, Gillian Clarke explores the idea of work being a happy experience through the continued positive imagery throughout the poem. This positive imagery is mostly of natural objects as shown in the line, ‘sweet with the liquors of the grasses, air green with the pastels of stirred hayfields’, which creates a laidback and care-free attitude towards work, as emphasized by the shortness of the stanzas themselves. The use of the words ‘green’, ‘pastels’ and ‘first kittens, first love’ also portrays new life that is created through the process of haymaking and the pleasant memories that can bring from working.
Georgia O’Keffee and John Marin: An Exploration The American Transcendentalists of the nineteenth century believed the key to spiritual enlightenment lay in the study of nature and natural forms -- in the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson, "to look at the world with new eyes." At Alfred Stieglitz’s Intimate Gallery, a legendary photographer and art dealer, is where the circle of artists that he managed and represented enveloped themselves in the essential belief in the purity of an unrestricted vision. Rather than create an exact likeness of nature, these artists, including Stieglitz's wife, Georgia O'Keeffe, attempted to reduce it to its most essential forms, which then served as a framework upon which to express and interpret their individual
In fact, the first poem in his first book and the last poem of his final book are both about encounters with nature. Some say Frost was a common American writer who was in love with nature, such as James Fenimore Cooper. However, others say the woodsman he wrote about as “independent, defiant of urban artificially and at one with nature was one of his conceptions of himself.” His poems about nature portray many different themes. Frost used the woods as a place that could be used “for restoration of
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Scott Ridley’s Blade Runner, although constructed in different contexts, are both instrumental in demonstrating the universal notion of the nature of humanity. Through the literary discourse of Frankenstein, Shelley is able to draw from the contextual influences of the Romantic Movement and Enlightenment, therefore exploring the valued notions of excessive knowledge and the role of creator in establishing glory. These universal notions have been appropriated and shaped in Blade Runner, to therefore present the way in which the contemporary capitalised society of America has led to a futuristic world characterised by the consequences of excessive knowledge and usurping the role of creator. Both Frankenstein