This paper contends that poets vary in their views on nature. The paper discusses how Stevie Smith in the poem "Alone in
the Woods" uses anger to convey man's destruction of nature and how Margaret Walker in her piece "My Mississippi Spring" conveys nature as if it were the most beautiful thing they have ever experienced or beyond carnal experience. The paper explains how other poets choose to personify it or give it some type of unimaginable quality or symbolic meaning. The poets discussed in the paper (Stevie Smith, Margaret Walker, Alexander Pope, 'Abd Allah ibn al-Simak and Pat Lowther) tend to all mean for the better of nature but all use different
techniques. The paper explores how the poets use different themes such as anger and different techniques such as diction or
personification, but all arrive at the main idea of exalting nature.