Modern Poetry in the Classroom: Frog Nightmares and Other Points of View

Introduction

“…83 To distance themselves from the idea of environment as mere background or context, scholars sometimes talk instead about landscape, 84 or the more terrestrial terminology of 'Earth' or 'the world', or simply 'nature'. 85 But each of these are controversial in their own rights. Disagreements about what constitutes the environment or nature, and, therefore, what our obligations might be to it, have been at the heart of environmental ethical debates for decades.…”