Four Poems About the Natural World

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Four Poems About the Natural World

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2015-10-01

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Journal of Opinions, Ideas & Essays (JOIE)

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These poems were written in the 1970’s, inspired especially by the English poet Kathleen Raine, a Cambridge M.A. in botany and zoology with a strong focus on the natural world. Soon I was asked by my friend Professor Dennis Hurrell to speak to a class on Women’s Literature entitled “Form and Function in Literature” and to provide a contrast by focusing on “Form and Function in the Biosphere.” In doing so, I read and described the significance of a set of poems that had an ecological context, and slipped in a couple of my own.

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Gorham, Eville. (2015). Four Poems About the Natural World. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/200575.

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