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Thoughts of Nature from My Backyard
“Thoughts of Nature from my Backyard”
As the wind blows through my hair I sit thoughtfully
The sun is shining in the light blue sky.
The bugs and birds are working as I lie,
the sounds around me cohere rhythmically.
The thoughts of my younger days come slowly.
I run the yard so desperate to try
to run so fast that I feel I could fly.
Flowers were blowing ever so calmly,
and the grass was so green it looked like spring.
I thought to myself about its beauty.
The little animals are such cuties.
Then the clouds with thunder began to ring.
The birds that once were clear had ceased to sing.
The sky be so grey it was scary.
The green of spring was gone forever truly.
Those little animals were not so sweet.
They ran around and tried to bit your feet.
I thought about the nature I had seen.
about the grass and trees and flowers as well.
I wonder what all of this nature means
the younger you are the more you can tell,
the more you can tell what the nature is.
much nature is lost on older people.
loss of innocence is loss of nature.
but childlike wonder is eternal.
William Wordsworth is a poet who ushered in the period of writing in England known as Romanticism. His particular style is based on his perception of nature and how he looks at it compared to his own personal experiences as well as the experiences of his childhood. Many of his poems are about a loss of innocence or growing up as many call it. He usually ties that somehow to nature. In my poem, I used the nature as a symbol for childhood and the main theme of it is saying that as you grow up, many people lose their eyes for the beauty of nature, as many lose their ties to their childhood imaginations. The colors of the outside beauty merely become colors and the wind isn’t magic in the air, but just a breeze. The poem is also written pretty much in the Petrachean sonnet form, minus a few adjustments made for length. Wordsworth wrote many poems in this form including some of his most famous such as “Tintern Abbey”. Wordsworth conforms to the Romantic era in the way he writes about nature. He brings no science or intellectual thinking into his poetry. He merely speaks for his experiences and how the nature makes him feel or appears to be acting. He truly is a Romantic poet and I wrote my poem using his elements, making my poetry Romantic Era worthy as well!
As the wind blows through my hair I sit thoughtfully
The sun is shining in the light blue sky.
The bugs and birds are working as I lie,
the sounds around me cohere rhythmically.
The thoughts of my younger days come slowly.
I run the yard so desperate to try
to run so fast that I feel I could fly.
Flowers were blowing ever so calmly,
and the grass was so green it looked like spring.
I thought to myself about its beauty.
The little animals are such cuties.
Then the clouds with thunder began to ring.
The birds that once were clear had ceased to sing.
The sky be so grey it was scary.
The green of spring was gone forever truly.
Those little animals were not so sweet.
They ran around and tried to bit your feet.
I thought about the nature I had seen.
about the grass and trees and flowers as well.
I wonder what all of this nature means
the younger you are the more you can tell,
the more you can tell what the nature is.
much nature is lost on older people.
loss of innocence is loss of nature.
but childlike wonder is eternal.
William Wordsworth is a poet who ushered in the period of writing in England known as Romanticism. His particular style is based on his perception of nature and how he looks at it compared to his own personal experiences as well as the experiences of his childhood. Many of his poems are about a loss of innocence or growing up as many call it. He usually ties that somehow to nature. In my poem, I used the nature as a symbol for childhood and the main theme of it is saying that as you grow up, many people lose their eyes for the beauty of nature, as many lose their ties to their childhood imaginations. The colors of the outside beauty merely become colors and the wind isn’t magic in the air, but just a breeze. The poem is also written pretty much in the Petrachean sonnet form, minus a few adjustments made for length. Wordsworth wrote many poems in this form including some of his most famous such as “Tintern Abbey”. Wordsworth conforms to the Romantic era in the way he writes about nature. He brings no science or intellectual thinking into his poetry. He merely speaks for his experiences and how the nature makes him feel or appears to be acting. He truly is a Romantic poet and I wrote my poem using his elements, making my poetry Romantic Era worthy as well!
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