In Making Nature Sacred, Gatta discusses Anne Bradstreet’s poem titled “Contemplations”. In it, she related humans to amphibians because we live within and apart from nature at the same time. I thought this was a very intriguing idea so I decided to look up the poem and read it for myself. My favorite stanza is the following:
Shall I then praise the heavens, the trees, the earth,
Because their beauty and their strength last longer?
Shall I wish there, or never to had birth,
Because they're bigger and their bodies stronger?
Nay, they shall darken, perish, fade and die,
And when unmade, so ever shall they lie.
But man was made for endless immortality.
This is a very beautiful poem and it is very deep. This stanza in particular describes how the earth is so beautiful and innocent naturally but the nature is slowly dying because of the things that humans are doing to it. Humans are taking over and becoming stronger and stronger (“endless immortality”). To me, this poem describes how humans basically take the earth for granted.
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