Ric says:
>something which (blairites wd say) "added value"
>to human experience?
Yes 'nature poems' often see Nature as a convenience which
'adds value' to human experience. They can also present it
as something which reduces that value. I'd say that
the animal poems of Ted Hughes use animals as analogues
for people to present a reductionist view of human nature,
which at the same time presents us with animals as machines,
thus reducing their value also.
Whereas close observation ('frost spangles fleece', Colin Simms
noting magpies in the treetops) without imposition
calls up Peter Larkin's 'companionable difference'.
Alan
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