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What role does nature play in Auden's poem?

Answer 1

Nature wears many different hats, even within the same poem. For example, in "In Praise of Limestone," the limestone landscape is peaceful, idyllic, and sensuous, coded as pleasant to the rustic innocents even though it is constraining (compare the rustic scenes in "Night Mail"), but the granite areas provide space for military training for men of the city (compare the bleak landscape of "The Shield of Achilles"), and the oceanic deep rules over all with the abysses of mortality. In general Nature reflects the hard realities of human nature, the Freudian unknowns that must be studied to become known, but which ultimately escape full understanding and cannot be fully brought under control. Nature is indifferent and uncomprehending of human suffering, as in "Musée des Beaux Arts." The changing of Nature in "Spain" mirrors that country's political and intellectual changes. Nature can be molded and destroyed by man, who often does not understand or respect it.

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Answer 2

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Nature wears many different hats, even within the same poem. For example, in "In Praise of Limestone," the limestone landscape is peaceful, idyllic, and sensuous, coded as pleasant to the rustic innocents even though it is constraining (compare the rustic scenes in "Night Mail"), but the granite areas provide space for military training for men of the city (compare the bleak landscape of "The Shield of Achilles"), and the oceanic deep rules over all with the abysses of mortality. In general Nature reflects the hard realities of human nature, the Freudian unknowns that must be studied to become known, but which ultimately escape full understanding and cannot be fully brought under control. Nature is indifferent and uncomprehending of human suffering, as in "Musée des Beaux Arts." The changing of Nature in "Spain" mirrors that country's political and intellectual changes. Nature can be molded and destroyed by man, who often does not understand or respect it.

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