EN 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Robinson Jeffers, Margaret Atwood, Tabula Rasa
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Nature was good because it brings about change and it"s the way things are supposed to be -> it"s the natural way. Nature is not artificial -> not like human civilization. This is a photograph of me (margaret atwood) -> it starts off as nature being beautiful. Speakers own relationship to nature in the poem -> she died from it because she was drowning away (in that sense, nature is destructive and dangerous) In the poem, nature is deceiving (nature is often associated with pure and lovely, but if you look closely in the poem it"s dangerous) The speaker is dead (like ghost) -> the narrator is there but not there at the same time. The tone does not change -> it remains flat, disconnected throughout the poem. We are unable to define/locate the speaking individual. Margaret cavendish the sea similized to meadows and. Poems basic opinion/attitude towards nature -> there really is no ideological stance taken towards nature.
