nature poetry
Outdoor world lyrics
Nature poetry is verse centered on the natural world—landscapes, seasons, plants, animals, weather.
The genre ranges from pastoral celebrations of rural life to Romantic awe at wilderness to ecological meditation on humanity's relationship with the environment.
Wordsworth's daffodils poem is classic nature poetry.
The term sometimes distinguishes outdoor subject matter from poetry focused on human society or inner life.
- free versePoetry without fixed structure
- haikuJapanese seventeen-syllable verse
- odeLaudatory verse form
- landscapeVisible features of terrain
- elegyPoem lamenting the departed
Mary Oliver · wilderness · natural world · autumnal · pastoral · interconnectedness · biophilia · transcendence · bloom · wild flowers · solstice · fauna · bird song · tranquility · changing seasons · villanelle · sublime · quiet contemplation
- Native Literatureindigenous authors, indigenous voices, tribal stories, creation stories, trickster tales
- poetrypoem, poems, verse, verses, rhyme
- nature booksanimal stories, White Fang, Walden, field guides, The Lorax
- RomanticismWilliam Blake, the sublime, J.M.W. Turner, Eugene Delacroix, emotionalism
- Classical PoetryHomer, Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Sappho
- contemplative poetryhaiku, meditation, reflection, stillness, mindfulness
nature poetryconfessional poetry
Poetry of raw personal revelation
protest poetry · political poetry · war poetry · interior monologue