BROWN A NA TU RE-STUDY PROJECT 379 



is poetry and beauty. Harwood's, "New Creations in Plant 

 Life" which deals with the work of Burbank is of great interest 

 in expressing this relationship. 



The first project of this grade then is the relation of literature 

 to the home, to every day life of the family. This can be studied 

 from such as the following: 



Harlow, Joel — The Hasty Pudding. 



Carleton, Will— Farm Ballads 



Dunbar — L3rrics of a Lowly Life. 



Frost, Robert— North of Boston— (The Code) 



Longfellow— The Bridge— The Old Clock on the Stairs— The 

 Psalm of Life — Birds of Passage — Evangeline. 



Whittier — Snowbound . 



The value of poetry as a vehicle of fable is seen in Whittier's, 

 "Double Headed Snake of Newbury," and Emerson's, "Fable." 

 Prose is served the same purpose, in Hawthorne's, "Twice Told 

 Tales." 



Then follows a series of poems in which there is characterization 

 by application to the human attitudes or comprehension. Bret 

 Harte's poems are excellent descriptive, vigorous bits, true to the 

 out-of-doors. Begin with those in which there is little of the 

 human element projected. Then continue through Freneau's. 

 "Wild Honeysuckle," Bryant's, "June", "To the Fringed Gentian" 

 Lanier's, "The Bee," "Sunrise," "Clover," "The Corn," and 

 Bayard Taylor's, "Home Pastorals." Then compare the lone- 

 liness which nature inspired in Bums with the feelings which were 

 experienced by nature poets of this country. That is, try to 

 develop the difference in temperaments. Conclude this part of 

 the study with William A. Quayle's account of "Winter Trees" 

 in which the human characterization has reached a very high 

 and remarkable degree. 



This leads to a characterization of men. And Lowell's, " Agassiz' ' 

 Markham's, "Lincoln," will well serve here. Of course there 

 is a great sufficiency of statues to illustrate this work. St. Gaudens's 

 Lincoln is the most notable for the last poem. 



Patriotism then through symbols is easily suggested tlirough 

 Drake's "The Flag," and Whitman's, " O Captain ! My Ca])tain !" 



From this we come to literature in a wider sense, for we are to 

 consider literature as a mysterious vehicle for tlie convcx-ancc of 



