Question

Compare and contrast the role of nature and the natural world in two poems from this unit: Walt Whitman’s “Come Up from the Fields Father” and Sara Teasdale’s “There Will Come Soft Rains.”

I am horrible at world war poems.. please help me

Answer 1

could you post the poems?

Answer 2

@southernbelle00 yes give me a moment plz

Answer 3

sure

Answer 4

Come up from the fields father, here’s a letter from our Pete,
And come to the front door mother, here’s a letter from thy dear son.

Lo, ’tis autumn,
Lo, where the trees, deeper green, yellower and redder,
Cool and sweeten Ohio’s villages with leaves fluttering in the moderate wind,
Where apples ripe in the orchards hang and grapes on the trellis’d vines,
(Smell you the smell of the grapes on the vines?
Smell you the buckwheat where the bees were lately buzzing?)

Above all, lo, the sky so calm, so transparent after the rain, and with wondrous clouds,
Below too, all calm, all vital and beautiful, and the farm prospers well.

Down in the fields all prospers well,
But now from the fields come father, come at the daughter’s call,
And come to the entry mother, to the front door come right away.

Fast as she can she hurries, something ominous, her steps trembling,
She does not tarry to smooth her hair nor adjust her cap.

Open the envelope quickly,
O this is not our son’s writing, yet his name is sign’d,
O a strange hand writes for our dear son, O stricken mother’s soul!
All swims before her eyes, flashes with black, she catches the main words only,
Sentences broken, gunshot wound in the breast, cavalry skirmish, taken to hospital,
At present low, but will soon be better.

Ah now the single figure to me,
Amid all teeming and wealthy Ohio with all its cities and farms,
Sickly white in the face and dull in the head, very faint,
By the jamb of a door leans.

Grieve not so, dear mother, (the just-grown daughter speaks through her sobs,
The little sisters huddle around speechless and dismay’d,)
See, dearest mother, the letter says Pete will soon be better.
Alas poor boy, he will never be better, (nor may-be needs to be better, that brave and simple soul,)
While they stand at home at the door he is dead already,
The only son is dead.

But the mother needs to be better,
She with thin form presently drest in black,
By day her meals untouch’d, then at night fitfully sleeping, often waking,
In the midnight waking, weeping, longing with one deep longing,
O that she might withdraw unnoticed, silent from life escape and withdraw,
To follow, to seek, to be with her dear dead son.

Answer 5

which poem is this?

Answer 6

"Come up from the Fields Father"

Answer 7

"There will come Soft Rains"

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white,

Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Answer 8

okay so first, i want to ask you, what do you think the difference is between nature and the natural world?

Answer 9

yeah, its tricky and i don't know exactly why they had to list both, it doesn't affect the answer seeing theyre related

Answer 10

I'm not that great at this, but nature reminds me of animals and wilderness & the natural world is like humans who have choices

Answer 11

okay, so for the first poem..... They really focus on the family farm and the colors of autumn. I would also mention Walt Whitman's attention to color, he really wanted to use the reader's sense of eyesight rather then smell or sound. The second one is written around some wet area, it never specifies. And the season is different, its spring in this one. Another big difference is the narrator uses the sense of hearing to grab the reader's attention, with words like singing and whistling But to compare these two i would say they both focus on small details like the smell of the ground and the grapes on the vines.. this shows you how each narrator used small details then pulled them together to make a complete scene. Thats what i got from it, i hope this helps :)

Answer 12

Thank you so so so much! This helps so much, I get it now haha. You're the best

Answer 13

No problem! happy to help

Answer 14

but in the future for questions like this, i'd recommend posting them in the english or even literature section, more people are active on those subjects and people will respond quicker