Write On This ... Exercise

It's only natural...

Since the Romantic poets highlighted a strong metaphorical relationship between man and nature, authors have incorporated this special connection to enhance their reader's enjoyment of imagery, mood, and voice. The storm is an obvious reflection of the churning emotions/challenges of the protagonist, but there are other aspects of nature which our literary ancestors used to great affect. One of my favourite novels is The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy. Watching hope (Spring) turn into the fat, tumultuous, excess of summer is captured in one very strong scene where the summer idyll is warped by the descriptions of a wasp: from this point the 'rot' begins to set in. Reflecting nature in art is by no means new; in Haiku poetry, there is often a 'hint' at the season, for us to find the picture of the moment, but it was the romantics that allowed nature the status of an active plot development tool.

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Write a short piece of prose that shows your protagonist, or antagonist, against a backdrop of nature that reflects the internal conflict of that moment in the plot.

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