Contemporary poetry and Nature Essay

Technically, â€Å"Contemporary poetry† is written after the start of the 1920`s, especially poetry is connected with modern literary genres, such as modernism and post-modernism. Poetry often involves nature in its description. Though inspiration as a poet truly derives from within, nature can act as a tool to enhance imagination and devices used in our poetry. Poets have for ages seen nature as a reflection of the human experience. Poets in their writing usually use two devices to relate to nature: personification and analogy. Reading modern poems about nature provides a double joy of learning and poetic appreciation. Most modern poets who write about nature are knowledgeable about it. These poets study nature; they don’t merely romanticize it. And the more they study, the more they seem to discover its uniqueness and preciousness – at a very deep core. The types of relationships that human beings have with nature can be sorted out, though these categories often overlap in actual literature because our relationship with nature, like all human relationships, is complex and multi-faceted. But for the sake of analysis, we can look at these relationships between human beings and nature: Man as a part of nature Man apart from nature Man in conflict with nature Man and nature separate but coexistent Man and nature separate and adversarial Nature superior to humanity Nature subordinate to humanity Nature and humanity equals For example, the poem â€Å"Daffodils No More†, written by the contemporary ecopoet Gordon J.L. Ramel. This work is a serious parody of an earlier poem Daffodils written by the English poet William Wordsworth in 1804. In that poem, Wordsworth wrote of the beauty of wild daffodils and how they inspired him. He also mentioned seeing large numbers of this plant: â€Å"Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.† In ‘Daffodils No More’, Gordon J.L. Ramel draws our attention to the fact that the number of wild daffodils in England has declined greatly since Wordsworth’s day. In addition, the abundance of many other organisms.