The LitCritToolKit
What role does nature and the landscape play here? Why is the shrubbery leafless? What kind of shrubbery could it be? |
Is wordplay present here, echong the leafless shrubbery? What relationship between nature and the book may be at work here? |
What role does this depiction of nature play in the text? |
How much was actually known at the time about this species? What form of natural history was being practised and what cultural assumptions underpinned the way it was carried out and written? |
How do nature and human emotion relate to each other in the text? How does nature affect emotion? How does emotion affect the way nature is perceived? |
How does this description of nature compare to other contemporaneous descriptions, either in verse or prose? Is nature being personified in any covert ways? |