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12018-10-18T00:31:30-07:00Post Card 3 - Raymond May2plain2018-10-18T00:36:39-07:00As aforementioned at the end of the previous post card, Marginal Worlds’ close reading of Robert Frost’s poem, ‘A Brook In the City’ clearly shows the powerlessness of the brook against the urbanisation of city scapes and urban development. As humans are constantly expanding their boundaries, we can see the depletion of nature and the impacts it is having on the resources accessible via such natures.
What I found interesting was Rachel Carson’s description of the ebb and flow of the sea touching the land and retracting, having an indefinable boundary and never being at rest.
I drew a small link to Marginal Worlds’ conclusion of their close reading as it poses the question of the brook really being cemented over and that the guilt will continue to manifest through human activities such as those that cause climate change. This shows nature’s unrest and that dominating it results in a struggle with negativity and boundaries. Furthermore, nature also takes on many different forms such as plants.
