Mothers Nature
is described and portrayed in many different ways. Her many
depictions range from angry forces or the idea of a great nurturing
goddess. Regardless of her many differing depictions throughout
history, the conclusion can be drawn that many people accredited
our natural world with a lot of power. They personified the natural
world and gave her this overreaching power. In some circumstances
this is a nurturing thing, in others its a punishment and
malevolent thing. This theme also flow through some
poetry. As you
can see, Optimism, by Jane Hirshfield, Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
and Coast of Maine by Richard Eberhart, all take on this theme.
Even though these three exciting and invigorating poems include the
idea that the natural
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The poet starts
off describing a scene, this imagery drives the idea that we are
talking about
natureand we can
see this in phrases like Gulls drop clams (line 2), the seas
(line 3) and
the flowers, stones heating the tides (line 6).
These are all either animals or natural occurring objects in the
world. Now that the poet has set up this idea of what part of
nature we are in, she starts to move on with her theme in the next
stanza. This is
peace, the indifference of nature, (line 7). This is when Eberhart
starts to give nature some qualities not usually assigned to it.
For nature to be indifferent about something suggest that nature is
bigger, stronger and unbothered by the actions of something, and in
this case that is man. In this third stanza the poet even furthers
his point more by saying What does nature care about the nature of
man? (line 16). How unbothered does nature seem now? We can now
see this picture being painted, this large power, and humans are
simply a fly buzzing in its ear. Now that these is a
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She gives off a
nurturing vibe sou acceptance and its stark contrast to what the
last two poems were trying to convey. A lot of what she is saying
pushes the mother part in mother nature. You can see this is
apparent when she talks about the family of things(line 17) This
applies to the maternal idea as well. This imagery really gives you
a good idea of the power. With such a deep connection to all the
things in the world, it alludes to the idea that the natural world
is large and powerful. This entity differs immensely from the last
two. However there is a small reference in this poem that holds
some similarity. She says Meanwhile the world goes on. This is
very similar to the last poems. This statement talks about the
indifference and lack of concern he world has. The world is large
has this vastness to it and Oliver plays on that too. She paints
this visual picture of geese migrating, she lets you imagine this
vast sky when she says Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean
blue air, are heading home again. This builds this vast
environment, and gives this natural entity power. Thats what these
poems get across. Nature is much more than just environments,
ecosystems and food chains. This thought of
connecting
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