nature poem
Ode to wilderness
A nature poem is a poem focused on the natural world—landscapes, seasons, plants, animals, weather.
The tradition runs from pastoral verse through Romanticism to contemporary ecological poetry.
Nature poems may celebrate beauty, explore human relationships with the environment, or meditate on cycles of growth and decay: Wordsworth's daffodils poem is the quintessential nature poem.
- verseMetered poetic passage
- pastoralOf countryside or clergy care
- odeLaudatory verse form
- wildflowersUncultivated flowering plants
- wild rosesUncultivated flowering brambles
birdsong · meadow · morning dew · seasons · Wordsworth · Lake District · Robert Frost · Mary Oliver · stanza · brook · imagery · wilderness · lyric · dew · forest · deep woods · contemplation · rhyme
- poetryverse, verses, rhyme, rhymes, rhythm
- lyric poemssonnet, ode, odes, sonnets, villanelle
- oral poetrylament, eulogy, panegyric, encomium, lay
- Augustan literatureheroic couplet, mock-heroic, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Augustan age
- pastoral poetrypastoral, eclogue, idyll, bucolic, locus amoenus
- poetry termsrhyme, verse, rhythm, meter, beat
nature poemconfessional poetry
Poetry of raw personal revelation
war poem · protest poetry · war poetry · political poetry · love poem
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