Read the following excerpt from leslie marmon silko’s story "the man to send rain clouds." before they wrapped the old man, leon took a piece of string out of his pocket and tied a small gray feather in the old man's long white hair. ken gave him the paint. across the brown wrinkled forehead he drew a streak of white and along the high cheekbones he drew a strip of blue paint. he paused and watched ken throw pinches of corn meal and pollen into the wind that fluttered the small gray feather. then leon painted with yellow under the old man's broad nose, and finally, when he had painted green across the chin, he smiled. the actions of leon and ken indicate that

wordsworth tends to see nature as 'out there'; a presence which surrounds humans, and contributes to human life, but is different from humans. if you look at a typical wordsworth poem (there was a boy, ye knew him well ye rocks) - wordsworth talks about nature as something that needs to be learned about and understood, nature is different from us.  

if you look at a byron poem (the isles of greece is a good one) - byron looks at nature mainly for what it already means to man. wordsworth will look at a landscape and see the mountains, trees, valleys, and rivers as almost spiritual presences - wordsworth wants to get to know nature.  

byron will look at the same landscape and he will want to know who lives there, what are the villages? are there any farms or mines, is there some history?  

wordsworth looks at nature for what it is; byron is forever asking what it means.  

wordsworth thinks that humans are part of nature; byron thinks that nature is part of being human

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