ESSAY ON: Swinburne/The Sundew

Number of Pages 8

This research paper: An 8 page essay/research paper that offers an explication of Victorian poet A.C. Swinburne's poem "The Sundew." Drawing heavily on an article by J. Smith (2003), the writer argues that Swinburne used this small carnivorous plant to establish a view of nature that was at odds with the climate of the Victorian age, which sought to explain anything and everything through scientific analysis. The sundew is presented as holy because it is a part of nature. Yet, inscrutable and mysterious, Swinburne presents the plant as neither wholly good nor evil, but simply part of a greater cycle of life and death that human beings work diligently to ignore. Bibliography lists 2 sources.


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