Nature in Poetry
There are a lot of writers who write about the nature. Nature is an endless treasury of symbolism, allegory, and it can surely inspire poets to use those tools to describe their feelings or to bring their messages to humanity. I would like to examine two short poems and to see how each author uses nature as a tool in his work. The first one is "Grass" by Carl Sandburg. This is a poem about the evil of the war. It is told from a nature's point of view, the grass is who is speaking. It is very symbolic - the nature is seen like a mother, who covers all what her bad children had done. She cries, but full of tears still does her job. The poem was written in 1918, the last year of World War One. People were devastated , the general mood of the society, tired of War, was very pessimistic. The structure of the poem reflects the situation after the war- the total mental devast
), and there are a lot of colorful, rich expressions and definitions. Both poems present interesting examples of the American modern poetry, in which nature is dominating. Frost admires natures "first green is gold", it looks like an allegory to a birth of the new life. It has a clear rhythm, it rhymes ("leaf-grief, flower-hour" etc. Then the whole life passes through this short poem. The poem is not complicated, it is read very easy, and looks very natural. The phrases are short, but clearly expressed and easy understandable. It has neither rhythm, nor rhyme, it looks like a short conversation piece, but it's content is very poetic. It does not want to judge people, like a mother who always forgives her children. It is like a power that observes humanity and covers its crimes. The author did want it to be understood by simply people, not only intellectuals or literature critics.
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