Emily Dickinson's Nature, The Gentlest Mother

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Nature is written and depicted in romantic works of art and literature as majestic, life-giving, beautiful, and nurturing. In the poem Nature, the gentlest mother, Emily Dickinson writes “ Nature, the gentlest mother, Impatient of no child...Her admonition mild”. In this poem nature is given the metaphor of a mother raising her children with care and affection. This is in accord with the general romantic view of nature as graceful and nurturing as in the poem, nature nurtures her inhabitants like a mother would nurture her child. The poem also demonstrates the romantic’s spiritual and divine connection to nature in the lines, “ Her voice among the aisle. Incites the timid prayer. Of the minutest cricket. The most unworthy flower.” The voice

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