How do the writers of four poems reveal their attitudes to nature?

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How do the writers of four poems reveal their attitudes to nature?

Many poets use poetry to convey their feelings for nature. Poets like Seamus Heaney, John Clare and Alfred Tennyson use a variety of techniques to reflect their experiences, connections and emotions in regards to the natural world.

Seamus Heaney's Storm on the Island presents his feelings to nature in several different ways. The first of these is through use of emotive language. Throughout the poem, Heaney uses words like "tragic" and "savage" to connote his views of how aggressive nature is to the reader. These words of anger give the audience a sense of the rage that Heaney sees in forms of nature like the wind which he is describing and the fear that he has for it. Heaney cleverly uses this to exemplify his emotions towards nature; fear for the aggressive nature of it but also respect for its strength. This is similar to the way Alfred Tennyson uses language to show readers his attitudes to nature in The Eagle. Tennyson makes use of possessive language such as "his mountain walls" to give the eagle he's describing a sense of possession over the walls and