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Abstraction of man
While nature has laws and processes mankind does too. Idea of property. taking land and building fenes. Our way of controlling nature.
Culture
society, values of people, traditions, rules, beleifs. culture is fluid and created, nature has been and will be; ability to modify and adapt to our environment we feel superiority
Prospect Poem
Beachy Head by Charlotte Smith.
Sitting high vantage point, zooming in and out. Observing nature and life below. Sublime.
Anthropocentric Instrementalism
man centered reality. It's all here for us what can do what we want with it.
nature
inheriant natural process and laws.
Ecocriticism
application of ecology and ecological to literature. Hoe we relate and connect with nature. Earth centered approach to reading literature.
Environtamentalism
natural resourse scarsity. environmenal protection. widesread voice (political). balance between nature and man. value of science and urban space.
Ecofeminism
blames ecocentric dualism. hyperseparation - denying nature's feeling. Environmental justice. Social and phylosphycal issues.
Cornucopia
no threat to nature by man (threats are exaggurated). Humans help world welfare. Scarsity is not a problem.
Deep Ecology
Not on mans side. Population control. Derived from primal religion.
Sublime
moment achieved by art and nature where the "one" is at "one" wth everyone and everything. Horrifying in its terror. Wild and ungovernable. (i.e. tinturn abby, beachy head, blake)
symbiosis
the give and take of nature and man
intrinsic value
it has value unto itself. which is achieved through identification and sympathy. the identification that it is spiritual and the sympathy provides recroprocity.
Anna Letitia Barbauld
The Mouse's Petition. The mouse is in a trap (out of natural habitat) petitioning for respect and sympathy (slave/master feeling -possiblywomens lib - possibly american lib) Barbauld is the mouse audience.
Robert Burns
Wrote in a scottish dialect. Burns ran over the mouse house, he is not just a bystander. possible solution for barbaulds poem. we feel sympathy for mouse, who is female. This is and "independant" mouse representing all of nature.
Topographical poetry
combines descriptions of specific natural scene with historical, political or moral reflections. Suggested by the scene.
ecotone
boundary region in which nature and humanity had equal conversation. hear and understand (the grey area that is equal)
ecocide
destruction of nature through nuclear warfare, dumping of harmful chemicals over use of critical natural gasses. (BATE)
Chaos Theory
The theory that it can be demonstrated mathematically that a small invention upon the environment can have a masive effect on the environment on the other sideof the world.
Biodiverstiy
diversity in plants and animals in an environment.
BEACHY HEAD
ecosystem in a poem, topographical and prospect, sitting looking thinking waiting.
Imagination
BLAKE - divorce yourself from your physical body. Also see FANCY
nautre as a way to get to your imagination... nature as imagination HANDOUT
THE FLY
Blake - he and the fly are the same
THE SICK ROSE
Blake - struggling against itself. BLAKE - Portraying out relationship with nature (parasitic). sympathize with the rose but respect and understand the worm needing a home.
THE OAK, THE ECHOING GREEN
BLAKE - youth and old , laughter, echoing history
THE LAMB / THE TYGER
BLAKE - importance of nature as given by God remember the Creator.
CLOD AND PEBBLE
BLAKE - mans interfereance with nature, anthropomorphis
Dorthy WordsWorth
first environmentalist, guide to the lake district. keen eye for detail. muse for her brother they were very close.
GRASMERE
Dorthy Wordsworth. gerdered personification. short and precise language. It's purpose was to give william pleaseure, keep her from being bored, it's personal (to inspire her brother). Birch tree (spirit and personificed). uncanny death/undeath
Williamm Wordsworth
nature has it's own power. we waste out own intelligent and creative power. Tinturn Abby...Westminster Bridge...Daisy...butterful
COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE
William Wordsworth. SONNET
he begins talking about a city
nature vs culture. Sun and river are actors and nature has taken over as the city sleeps. Interesting positino for WW to take.
TO THE DAISY
3 paragraphs.
1. i found a daisy
2. what am i gonna do with it
3. this poem is about writing a poem (he is going to name it, daisy raises thoughts in him). Metaphor NOT SIMILIE. MORAL? they share the world, they are the same. This is the articulation of entrensic value.
Coleridge
Rime of of the Ancient Matiner. Loved naming things (anthropologist). Spontaneous overflow of emotion. wind making music (Eolian HARP) coining of words. predaseessor to BYron
Eolian Harp
wind playin music on a harp Coleridge!!! spontaneous overflow of natures emotion.
Ecolect
the way colgeridge mixes language creating and ecoect for nature so that it can speak and be heard better.
place
Austen - Mansfeild Park - surrounding/location/standing (socially)/connection to place/time/space **understanding of sympathy inspiration and connection an agent
Jane Austen
mansfeild park. manners novel
AMNSFEILD PARK
Think about improvement, station, place, city as evil. fanny defined by her usefulness (as nature is) Fanny connected to nature and desiring to save it.
improvement
MP - JA - improvement of people vs the improvement of nature... "improving through destruction" Fanny concerned with saving the tree.
2 generation poets
Byron, Shelley and Keats