“I have never concealed the fact that I regarded him as my master; indeed I fancy I have never written a book in which I did not quote from him.” C.S.Lewis’ “The fairy story may be made a vehicle of Mystery. That at least is what George MacDonald attempted, achieving stories of power and beauty when he succeeded.” J R Tolkien.
Poets have used the concept of Nature differently in different eras. The Eighteenth century poets and Romantic poets were quite different in terms of employing the concept of Nature.
Everyone experiences the generation gap. Larkin, Plath and Heaney all portray feelings of separation and even resentment to their parents as they represent history and not the present. They use different techniques to portray the gap as well as adopting different tones throughout the poem. The bombast in the poems even becomes humor and the poems are often ironic and sarcastic.
