So this turned out a little more grim than I anticipated... but I felt like Bryant only addressed a small proportion of humanity with the description "To him who in the love of nature holds/ Communion with her visible forms," so I wrote a poem for the rest of humanity:
In him who the love of nature is lost,
There is no response to when she speaks.
For in his destructive hours, she weeps,
And in the aftermath, examines the cost,
In his moments of suffering,
She wants to help but can only try,
Forced to stand by, she can only sigh.
And wince when she feels the sting,
The egregious, biting sores
Of his manipulative days,
When his Evil has its way
And her winds are changed; hurricanes roar,
He who seeks not the source,
Blames nature for the sin,
And thinks he will win,
When he stops her with force,
But while the war is waged
He isolates himself in fear,
And her who was once held dear,
Is now trapped outside his cage,
For when the day comes that he must die,
He shies away from the comfortable soil,
And nature’s tomb for which she toiled,
Instead encased in formaldehyde.
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Well, this hardly seems like a parody-- it is even darker than Thanatopsis. It certainly gives a new way to look at things. Well, at least more similar to how people usually view death.
This is rather well written
When I read your parady the first quote/thought that occured to me was "humans are born evil". This parody is very dark yet very true of modern society. Many of us shut ourselves away from nature and cease to be grateful of what nature gave us. We cut down trees, pollute the air, and kill animals for their fur but there is nothing nature can really do to stop us. We are the ones who are distancing ourselves from nature and encasing ourselves "in formaldehyde".
PS Great job :)
Interesting. I like how you've engaged with one of the premises of the poem. Jennifer points out that your parody is "true of modern society" -- as opposed, perhaps, to an earlier society. What connections might be drawn between your parody and The Waste Land.
(Or, now that I think of it, "God's Grandeur"?)
What great poem-well in the since of how it was written because it is rather dark :). However, i liked how you used the sins of today's society to prove your point. Nature is being blamed upon for our sins. With all of the corrosion of nature around us (polluted air, animal cruelty and the infamous tree sitters that gives Berkeley its stereotypical image) i can see why you think humans today are the cause of natures demise. So because of this poem I am going to recycle more :)
wow. another great poem from my fellow classmate. like my esteemed classmates, this poem is indeed very dark. The one thing that I loved about your poem is what Jennifer Zhu said. We do cut down trees, pollute the air, and nature really cannot do anything to stop us. And while there are people who are trying to get some changes to take place, most people don't care.
I mean I recycle whenever I can but I do get lazy. And nature can't do anything about that. The cars on the street cause pollution, but no matter what, most people don't use alternatives. So I do blame humans for all the problems that are going in the world, and while we are trying to do something about it, we are just not doing it as fast as we are depleting nature.
PEACE ... RECYCLE...
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