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Praise Of Creation
In Praise of Creation by Elizabeth Jennings and The Spring by Thomas Carew had the biggest impact because they use nature imagery to illustrate human emotions and they show you that certain things are worth appreciating. They both use metaphors and imagery to show these things they are trying to portray.
The Spring by Thomas Carew is about unreturned love at a time (spring), when the sun warms the spirits and aroused the fire of love. The tone is lighthearted, in keeping with the time of the year, but tinged with frustration because of the attitude of the speaker's beloved.The seasons are changing from winter to spring, but his beloved remains as cold as winter toward him. Only his beloved remains out of step with the season. When the poet
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That much is quite obvious. However, the poet is deliberately vague about why nature is so inspiring and awesome, in the truest sense of the word. She simply stands in awe of all that creation is, from the sky above, to the tiger, down the mating rituals of the birds. The poet finds it all unspeakably awe inspiring.The poet notices the small things in creation that have caused her to stand in awe of it. She has studied “that one bird” and the “one star” for long enough to acknowledge that the beauty and wonder behind one tiny little bird is too much for her mind to comprehend. She realizes that the light from one star travelling from millions of light years away, is enough to cause her to stand in complete awe of the universe. She is also amazed at the changes of the moon, and the way that it is “sometimes cut thinly” and other times is full. This indirectly reveals her awe at the way the universe is set up so that the moon orbits the earth and the earth the sun in such a way that to the human eye, it seems that sometimes the moon is “cut thin”. Elizabeth Jennings finds it amazing that an animal as dangerous as a tiger comes with a visible warning sign. She sees the tiger’s stripes as a type of cage, warning other animals of the dangerous nature of this beast. Yet, though it is a dangerous animal, it still is “watchful over creation” as though it plays a very important role in the way that nature

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