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The Teachingsof Natur" "Look deep into nature, and you will understandeverything better," (Albert Einstein). Many people believed that nature teachesus about life. During the romantic period in the 1800'speople were interestedin the artistic, literary, and intellectual views on life. In the romantic poem Nature, by Emily Dickenson, shedescribesthe beauty of nature and how it takes care of its creationsin the forest. The poem includes usesof metaphor,personification, and vivid imagery to describenature.Dickenson is ultimately trying to influence the industrialist opinion of nature to make them want to treat nature with eare,becausenature is beautiful and loving. The poem overall describesthe beauty of nature. Dickenson loves nature and
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usesmetaphor in line 1, "Nature, the gentlestof mot[er,"-she comparesnature to a mother. Mothers are kind and loving, they take care of there "child[ren]" as much as they can. When she sa nature is a gentle mother it paints a picture of a mom taking care ott\ r-i.tJ"}'f'. of her baby{vigilantly.looking over them,"doingher best to make sure they are safe.
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her Nature is paii-nt fike a mother and does not differentiate befipveen creatures;like a mother does not favor one of her children over the other. The use of metaphor in this poem implies thal nature is not anl.thing bad, it is there to look beautiful for the eyesof people. When people realizethat nature is only there for aestheticpurpose,they will feel guilty if they harm it in any way.

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that may want to cut it down should re-think themselvesand leave it defensescrpeople alonertoteep-teinga pleasureto look at. Her industrialist audienceduring the romantic ,} period mostly wanfio expand so they would cut the forest down. The poem is there to make them seethat nature welcomes all. In line 8, Dickenson says, "How fair her .) conversationo'iThisis more personihcation that showsthat nature is there to be seenby '^ --7 - { t/''t 7

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t Nature's only reason for existing is to be a pleasure to look at with all its natural beauty t with its sounds, plantpnd animals. This reflect the beliefs of the time period becausethe beliefs of the romantics are that nature teachesthem about life. As the poem says, nature protects and teachespeople how to treat each other as equals. This was trying to send out a positive messageto respect nature and to not harm it as it does not do anything wrong to others.
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