Do you think the poet is a nature lover? Give examples from the poem to support your viewFrom A thunderstorm poem by Emily dickinson
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In the poem A Thunderstorm , the poet beautifully describes the actions of the thunderstorm which had just begun. The poet writes about fluttering of the grass and the cattle rushing to the shelter and the birds flying to their nests as fast as they can. But in the last paragraph , The poet writes that she saw someone logging a tree. In this way she curses human nature of exploiting the wonderful gift of environment. This shows that the poet was a nature lover.
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The natural world has been one of the recurring subjects of poetry, frequently the primary one, in every age and every country. Yet we cannot easily define nature, which, as Gary Snyder points out in his preface to No Nature (1992), “will not fulfill our conceptions or assumptions” and “will dodge our expectations and theoretical models.” Yet the urge to describe the natural world — its various landscapes, its changing seasons, its surrounding phenomena — has been an inescapable part of the history of poetry. Wendell Berry provides a simple useful definition of nature poetry as poetry that “considers nature as subject matter and inspiration.”
Our concepts of nature are relative