I think it could be sufficiently argued that a major theme of this course would be nature, or how man deals with nature and mankind's own relationship with it. The natural world is constantly emphasized, either as a pastoral scene of the romance mode or as something no longer being the container but the thing contained or the tight relationship between innocence and the themes prevalent in nature (especially in children's literature) or as something poets aspire to imitate through mimesis or the personified envious tropes exemplified in Wallace Steven's poem. The Mythos of Seasons is a perfect example; the conciseness with which the analogies are aligned show perfects a direct and significant relationship between literature and nature, which I think can be found in just about everything we've discussed thus far and remains to be the underlying idea behind this class—that nature an literature may indeed be inexorably bound to one another.
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