How does elizabeth barett browning describe about nature?
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Patience Taught By Nature” was written by Browning as a reminder to readers that there is a whole world beyond one’s own that is uninfluenced by the dreary, everyday problems of human life. She begins that piece with her speaker addressing the listener and describing how humans experience life as being dreary. She immediately proceeds to counter this and minimize its worth by referencing birds that through generations of human life continue to sing unimpeded by human suffering. The world of animals goes on living even if the human race is generally unsatisfied with the life they are living.
She also speaks on the desire to live up to the God and the pain through which one struggles to find meaning in life. As this struggle is going on the ocean still encircles land, grasses still blow on the savannah, hills still sit and watch, and stars still shine. The leaves will fall from the trees as they always have and through this break in the foliage the speaker can gaze upon those eternal stars.
The poem concludes with a plea to God. The speaker asks that she be given grace, even if it is less than birds, hills, and oceans receive, that she may learn to have the patience of a blade of grass, and live contented with simple pleasure like heat and cold.