Reflections On Nature

Front 1

Ann Bradstreet

Back 1

Contemplations
Puritan

Hint 1

-Feels like she can never live up to nature, at the end of the poem she finds hope in the fact that she can find salvation after death.
-Nature is seen as a book, and you get close to God through the bible?

Front 2

Chain of Being

Back 2

-Creation by a Diety
-Vertical hierarchy
-sopientia (wisdom)
-scientia (senses)

Hint 2

-nothing is inferior, only less good or more good
-Diety at the top, then angels, then humans, animal, plants, and elements

Front 3

Thomas Paine

Back 3

The Age of Reason
Radical Diest

Hint 3

-Other religions are dangerous, they had witnessed killing

-Diest—the natural world is there for us to use scientific principles for our use
-Page 38 “The Almighty Lecturer” Great example of Diesm
Diest believes they can figure everything out “Man can figure everything out” Payne, the Age of Reason, you can take it at face value

Front 4

Phillip Freneau

Back 4

The Rising Glory of America
Enlightenment Deist

Hint 4

The Native Americans didn't use the land, so they should loose the land.

Front 5

Phillip Freneau

Back 5

Ode to a Honey Bee
Enlightenment Deist

Hint 5

-Should use science and reason to honor the diety
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Front 6

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Back 6

The Apology
Transcendentalist
• Transcendentalism thinks there is still mystery in the world

Hint 6

• The Apology: It is a defense, he is responding to people who may be similar to Freneau, whoa re just writing, he thinks there is a big value to being in nature, because nature tells them about their spirituality

Front 7

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Back 7

Rhodora
Transcendentalist

Hint 7

• The Rhodora: “Then Beauty is its own excuse for being” it doesn’t have to be useful to be appreciated
• We all have the same spiritual essence, even as a flower

Front 8

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Back 8

Berrying
Transcendentalist

Hint 8

He is in the wilderness, eating nature, very close with it. There are words with negative connotations… you get the feeling that before he had been locked away in a room and is around nature for the first time in a while, and at the end has a revelation that nature actually isn’t so bad.

Front 9

Walt Whitman

Back 9

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer
Transcendentalist

Hint 9

think about where the action takes place… the astronomer never goes outside which is why the speaker get bored (People are going to think that science is the only way to understand , and that’s not true… they are missing the spiritual part, health of the mind

Front 10

Walt Whitman

Back 10

The Dalliance of Eagles

Hint 10

Eagles having sex
Lots of references to the spiral
sex as spiritual
sex as not permanent
sex as violent and love

Front 11

Stephen Crane

Back 11

The Open Boat
Modernist

Hint 11

-All about different perspectives
-The people on shore think the fishermen are having fun, but really they are drowning

Front 12

Robert Frost

Back 12

Design
Modernist

Hint 12

creating doubt about a creator and showing an unlikely scene
-white spider, flower, and moth

Front 13

Richard Wilbur

Back 13

Death of a Toad
Contemporary

Hint 13

-Lawn mower cuts off the leg
-Concerned about how technology is negatively effecting nature

Front 14

William Carlos Williams

Back 14

The Red Wheelbarrow
Modernist

Hint 14

• First two lines are critical “so much depends upon”
• There is water and light
• Wheelbarrows are an agricultural tool, when you have rain and light you can grow things. The wheelbarrow enables you to harvest them. Wheelbarrow is man made, not found in nature
• Nature (rain and light and plants) comes together comes together with the human mind. So much depends upon that
• There are plants and animals on a farm
• What depends so much on the interaction of human mind and natural world? Agricultural enabled the foundation of human civilization. Meeting of mind and matter.

Front 15

Kindred Spirits

Back 15

Painter and Writer
Spiral
Transcendentalist

Front 16

Nude Descending a Staircase

Back 16

Modernist, perception