Week 8 Entry
Auguries of Innocence
A very long poem of which I found interesting however a bit hard to understand. The poem emphasizes man's cruelty to nature "A Dove house filled with doves.....Shudders hell through it's regions"
At the beginning of the poem the poet emphasizes that even a grain of sand can be representative of the whole universe, I think this also represents the closed mindedness of the world, that there is so much out there but man continually destroys nature making it smaller. However enlightenment can be found in the smallest of things as well, such as the "wild flower"being a source of heaven but man must see this first in order to appreciate it.
The poet goes on to highlight the consequences on man's actions such as "he who shall hurt the little wren shall never be belovd by men"...therefore man must realize it's mistakes before punishment is thrust upon them.
I think this is a true statement on the actions of the human race, we do not appreciate nature in the way that we should....as technology increase, I think our minds become overwritten and lazy and we start to forget about the smaller things in life which are really the most significant things and contribute much more the human inner experience than say "facebook". We say that our environment is suffering because of pollution and yet every day more than 20 trees are cut down to make room for a 7 storey building. If man survived to live in the stone-age, can we not afford to stop tearing nature apart in order to fulfill our superficial desires?