Its form, that of nature lyric replete with intimate observations of the beauty and bounty of the wild, displays Romanticism in the exaltation of detail and in the relationship imposed by its comparison of the speaker’s sensory interaction with the physical world to his spiritual interaction with his own inner world.” This quote goes on to further state her point about Kinnell's absolute adoration for nature and goes into great detail about Kinnell connects the reader on a more spiritual level to nature. Later on in the passage Starrett connects Kinnell’s words with the with nature by stating “When Kinnell writes of the blackberry stalks “knowing the black art of blackberry-making” and later describes “the silent, startled, icy, black language of blackberry-eating,” he is hinting at a metaphysical philosophy of a kind of Jungian collective unconscious that employs sensory, or even sensual, experience as its messengers.” This quote further presents Starrett’s case by giving this last connection between the beauty of nature and giving the reader a deeper connection to nature's …show more content…
Kinnell displays this thought when he says “and as I stand among them lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries fall almost unbidden to my tongue, as words sometimes do…”. With this thought, you can clearly see Kinnell's fascination with words and nature connecting the words to the ripest