ENGL 102W Lecture Notes - Spiral Jetty, Parataxis, Ibn Arabi

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 102W
• Professor: Stephen Collis

Document Summary

Any full history of the uses of [the word] nature" would be a history of a large part of human thought . About poetry: poetry is about compression, nature is considered to be a very complex word, concept of nature is very vague. Nature is a flexible and fluid concept: the word nature comes from a latin word natura, the word kind only makes sense in relation to organic things, pastoral poetry a common mode of writing or presenting poetry. Pastoral poetry the pastoral inhabits a contradictory and complex: humans create and shape grains, domestic animals and things we eat. Pastoral poetry is set in a place like arcadia: arcadia is a common theme in ancient greek or roman poems. Forest of arden is an arcadia setting: utopia vs arcadia, utopia is more about the future and the perfect civilization. Idealizing: arcadia is about the past and more about nature than civilization, only humans can code and decrypt a message.