Pastoral poetry- religion
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- Pastoral Poetry- Religion
- Religion is greatest in nature
- The Garden
- 'Scared plants'
- It is suggested that the sacred plants (metaphor for Holy virtues) will only grow amongst other plants/ only found in nature
- Nature allows contemplation, which leads to increased spirituality
- 'like a bird it sits and sings'
- Nature makes your soul happy
- 'Prepared for longer flight'
- Preparation for Heaven
- 'like a bird it sits and sings'
- 'Scared plants'
- The mower against gardens
- 'The God's themselves with us do dwell'
- Compared to statues in cultivated nature- the God's only exist in rural, nature.
- Possible reason for plural 'Gods'- not Christianity as expcted, but perhaps paganism or pantheism?
- Modern agricultural developments go against nature and therefore God
- 'forbidden mixtures'
- 'adulterate fruit'
- Adulterate- connotes sin
- 'The God's themselves with us do dwell'
- Paradise Lost
- Strong religious references throughout
- Reference to a kind God who makes Adam and Eve's work easy
- 'Pleasant task'
- 'not to irksome toil but to delight/ he made us'
- Links to pastoral ideas of a naturally leisurely life
- 'Pleasant task'
- Links to pastoral ideas of a naturally leisurely life
- Reference to a kind God who makes Adam and Eve's work easy
- Presents nature a place to worship God/ the earth 'praise's God
- 'Sacred light'
- 'Earths great altar'
- Morning incense'
- Humans must control nature for it remain sacred
- 'luxurious', 'wanton'
- Nature when left to grow wild- connotes sin
- parallel between nature going wild=giving into sin, and Adam and Eve giving in to satan
- Perhaps suggesting that post-lapsarian nature is wanton and luxurious? Humans sin ruined nature
- parallel between nature going wild=giving into sin, and Adam and Eve giving in to satan
- Nature when left to grow wild- connotes sin
- 'luxurious', 'wanton'
- Strong religious references throughout
- The Garden
- Alternative portrayals of religion
- Elegy
- Some ideas that go against orthodox Christianity
- 'the paths of glory lead but to the grave'
- Death is presented as final in the poem; what happens in life means nothing as we all die
- Goes against religious views of the afterlife
- Death is presented as final in the poem; what happens in life means nothing as we all die
- 'Let Ambition not mock their useful toil' 'Grandeur'
- Personification of Ambition and Grandeur- gives them power to influence people lives
- Abstract nouns act as living things- goes against typical religious ideas
- Personification of Ambition and Grandeur- gives them power to influence people lives
- 'Their lot forbad'
- 'Lot' connotes chance- potential suggestion that fate plays a part in the rural peoples desinies
- 'the paths of glory lead but to the grave'
- Some ideas that go against orthodox Christianity
- Mower to the glow worms
- Alternative view to orthodox religion- the glow worms care for nature's inhabitants
- Whereas in Christanity this would be God's role
- 'Living lamps'
- 'to wandering mowers shows the way'
- 'by whose dear light/ the nightingale does sit'
- Alternative view to orthodox religion- the glow worms care for nature's inhabitants
- Tintern Abbey (pantheism)
- Nature brings the benefits that typically in religion God brings
- 'Harmony', 'joy'
- 'my spirit turned to thee!'
- poet truns to nature 'in hours of weariness'
- 'Anchor of my purest thoughts'
- nature acts as a 'nurse'
- 'Soul of all my moral being'
- The poet speaks of nature as a religious person would speak of their God
- 'I, so long a worshipper of Nature'
- Capital N shows importance / personification
- Pantheism- pastoral idea
- 'I, so long a worshipper of Nature'
- Nature brings the benefits that typically in religion God brings
- Elegy
- Religion is greatest in nature
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