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Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch", also known as "Old Man travelling" is a poem written by William Wordsworth. It was published in 1798 in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads – a collection of poems created in collaboration with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The poem is estimated to have been composed either in late 1796 or early 1797. [1] "
Descriptive poetry is the name given to a class of literature that belongs mainly to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries in Europe. From the earliest times, all poetry not subjectively lyrical was apt to indulge in ornament which might be named descriptive.
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature calls this Harpur's "best-known and most-anthologised descriptive poem." However they then go on to say that "Although often praised for its creation of the hushed somnolent atmosphere of the summer noonday in the Australian bush, the poem lacks Australian definition."
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Sellers recognizes the threat that modern technology is to beautiful places and often portrays this technology as evil or an intruder in her poetry. [7] Sellers’ poetry is very descriptive and visual, bringing all of the beauty of northern Georgia to life. Sellers often describes native plants and animals in her works.
The Botanic Garden (1791) is a set of two poems, The Economy of Vegetation and The Loves of the Plants, by the British poet and naturalist Erasmus Darwin. The Economy of Vegetation celebrates technological innovation and scientific discovery and offers theories concerning contemporary scientific questions, such as the history of the cosmos .
Descriptive poetics is an analytic approach within literary studies. While the concept of poetics goes back to Aristotle , the term "descriptive poetics" refers to an approach which, according to Brian McHale , represents a middle ground between theoretically oriented approaches and analyses of individual works of literature.