Discussion About the Natural World

  Poems about the Natural World: Whitman, “Song of Myself” (Stanzas 31 and 32, pp. 107-8) Frost, “Birches” (pp. 223-4) Williams, “By the Road to the Contagious Hospital” (p. 281) Moore, “The Fish” (pp. 324-5) Auden, “In Praise of Limestone” (pp. 517-9) Roethke, “The Waking” (p. 536) Wilbur, “The Beautiful Changes” (p. 668) How does a “human perspective” mediate or interpret information about the natural world? Discuss two or three poems.