Lauren - Jackson, Wordsworth & Bolen

 All three of these poems have a sense of nature and the natural causes of the world. Although they all end up telling a different story and hold a different purpose, it is clear to see how all three authors use nature to tie in their messages. 

The first poem, “anthem for my belly after eating too much”, uses the nature of how your stomach grows when one eats too much. It is all a natural process. The message under the naturalistic perspective of this poem ties into the body image that is present in our country.  Media has created the idea that we should accept all body types now, yet Laureate Kara points out how clothing stores still do not follow this idea of acceptance. It was an interesting take on how she was able to have nature introduce this idea our society has been trying to push for a while now. 

The next poem, “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud”, is heavily revolved around nature. William Wordsworth uses nature to describe his feelings of loneliness. He starts off by thinking of himself as a cloud. He also does this by personifying daffodils and stars. Although this poem is a lot more involved with the idea of nature than the last one, it still has a deeper meaning. 

The last poem, “Quarantine”, uses nature to talk about a love story. This nature is not as practical as the first poem, or as mystical as the second poem, but it was rather referencing the nature that causes tragidigy. This poem talks about how a couple had passed away due to the natural weather conditions. The nature of the warmth from the man’s chest was trying to warm up his love, giving the deeper meaning to this poem a tragic love story. 

Although all of these poems were written from different purposes, from different perspectives and in different time periods, they all use nature. All three poems use different perspectives of nature to pursue different messages under the surface.