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Ecopoetry is any poetry with a strong ecological or environmental emphasis or message. Many poets and poems in the past have expressed ecological concerns, but only recently has there been an established term to describe them; there is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of poetry, termed Ecopoetry, which can, on occasions, form a major strand of a writer's career ...
"Binsey Poplars" is a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), written in 1879. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The poem was inspired by the felling of a row of poplar trees near the village of Binsey , northwest of Oxford , England , and overlooking Port Meadow on the bank of the River Thames . [ 3 ]
Her poem Marathinu Stuthi (Ode to a Tree) became a symbol for the protest from the intellectual community and was the opening song of most of the Save Silent Valley campaign meetings. [20] She was the founding secretary of the Prakrithi Samrakshana Samithi, an organisation for the protection of nature.
John A. Rea wrote about the poem's "alliterative symmetry", citing as examples the second line's "hardest – hue – hold" and the seventh's "dawn – down – day"; he also points out how the "stressed vowel nuclei also contribute strongly to the structure of the poem" since the back round diphthongs bind the lines of the poem's first ...
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[1] [2] [3] The poem, in twelve lines of rhyming couplets of iambic tetrameter verse, describes what Kilmer perceives as the inability of art created by humankind to replicate the beauty achieved by nature. Kilmer is most remembered for "Trees", which has been the subject of frequent parodies and references in popular culture.
The Nature of Things: A Didactic Poem: Vol 1 at the Internet Archive, Vol 2 at the Internet Archive. Reprinted in John Selby Watson's translation On the Nature of Things (1851) Wakefield (1796–97) Blank verse. Facing Latin text. 1813: Busby, Thomas: The Nature of Things: A Didascalic Poem: Heroic couplets. 1851: Watson, John Selby
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... Pages in category "Epic poems in English" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of ...