Post for 10-28

                We started to talk last class about nature poetry and at first I hated the idea I thought it to be just a boring topic and to think about reading poetry about nature made me think that I would personally rather watch paint dry. And then Professor Corrigan started to talk about the poem and read the verses from the Bible and showed pictures of the stuff that was talked about in the nature poem we had to read for class. Once I started to look at the pictures and think about it more it started to seem like a cool idea. Personally I love nature, I love when I go snowboarding to take the lift to the top of the mountain and then climb to the peak and see the view of all the other snow covered mountains, (last winter I went snowboarding in Whistler, British Columbia). Thinking of how much I love being outside and loving the view from the top of the mountain made me think that maybe nature poetry isn’t so bad, but there is one stipulation I would put on it. I think I actually want to be around nature when I am reading nature poetry and obviously, but not practically, I would like to be around what I’m reading about. So relating to the poem we read for class, I guess the reason I didn’t really like it the first time around may have been because I couldn’t really feel what the author was writing about. I’m excited to reread it this time around and actually go into my backyard and lie on the hammock under the trees outside and give it a nice through read and see if I like it any more. I think that I will find that I enjoy the poem for what it’s worth when I’m in a nature setting, kind of like when people go outside to read their Bibles and observe God’s creation. I hope I get something more from it this time because I was a little lost the first time around.