Nature as a Symbol of Beauty and Purity

Introduction

Poetry is an art. Poetry as a creative industry can also reshape geography. Recent economic geography literature has linked creative industries such as poetry with economic development. Richard Florida has argued that urban space should be transformed to draw footloose workers such as artists, engineers, writers, poets and entertainers. These workers' talent, or human capital, can help cities build new-economy, high-technology, high-income industries. In addition to being a creative industry, art can attract needed talent to cities. Florida contended that cities that rank high in terms of factors such as coolness (measured by the availability of nightlife and cultural amenities such as art) and diversity, or openness to all people (i.e., racial, ethnic, and sexual minorities, immigrants), will attract the creative workforce they need to thrive in a post-industrial economy. Poetry can also literally reshape specific places in a direct, hands-on manner.

When you are asked to compare the poems, paying attention to such items as meter, voice, rhyme, enjambment, imagery and all the thousands of literary terms that depart you reeling, or retching, depending on your present state of brain - manage not panic.

Discussion and Analysis

Beauty is real. It can be expressed with the help of art of power and wealth. The medium through which beauty can come into this world is through art; foreseeing the principles of power and wealth, art becomes the form to the standards by which the world evaluates itself.

Poetry praises beauty. Poetry is the vanguard of taste, trumpeting fashion before it actually exists. If you follow the history of poetry, you also follow the history of political power. This has been and still is the center of beauty, taste and poetry. Not unintentionally, these also are or were centers of political and monetary supremacy. Poets are rewarded to tell everyone what beauty is, and to exhibit that beauty for the praise of their patrons.

The experience of beauty in body, mind, and spirit is a universal human need. Beauty penetrates to the psyche's deepest levels and offers meaning to life. A thing of beauty uplifts the human spirit if the pleasure is derived from what is morally sound and aesthetically honest. Beauty offers lasting satisfaction. Gazing at a sunset, visiting a museum, listening to lovely music, deriving satisfaction from a mathematical or scientific project, seeing beauty in oneself and in others—all these experiences are designed especially for us. A person deprived of beauty is like a person deprived of love.

Cultures pursue beauty in their own ways knowing that without the experience of beauty, humanity remains sad and woefully incomplete. Beauty contributes to society when it helps us rise above life's oppressive demands, lightens burdens, and comforts the spirit. A nation too enjoys the beauty of civic, religious, and national holidays and the majestic vistas of national parks and playgrounds. Art exhibits together with music and literary events celebrate jubilant occasions. By contrast, a society long deprived of beauty compensates with coarse and even offensive pleasure that compromises human ...