The Call-For-Paper article that I found is “The Treatment of nature by romantic poets”. It discusses the Romantic Era poets who were lovers and admirers of nature. Among these were Keats, Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley Bysshe. Since my paper will be about poets of the Romantic Era and their poetry, I chose an article which sounded intriguing to me: Treatment of Nature by Romantic Poets” backed up by information on Edgar Allan Poe and his influences, which included Lord Byron (George Byron), John Keats and Percy Shelley Bysshe. The first paper tells about the descriptions and ideas of nature by different poets and the backup explains the techniques and command of language which Poe exhibited and how they will apply in my paper on Poets and Poetry.
Since my paper will be centered around Romantic Era poets and their poetry, I read several articles on how nature and the human mind are connected. Our relationship with the natural environment can be understood through the concept of biophilia and the biophilia hypothesis. This term is defined as humans’ innate need to affiliate with other life such as plants and animals. This essentially means that humans have a desire to be near nature.
As I was searching through the CFPs, there did seem to be a lot of papers geared toward politics and government. Education probably came in second as far as subjects. Many of the subjects listed are actually related to each other: politics are related to education by the theoretical objectives of education to achieve politically active individuals. Most of the conferences mentioned in these papers were between February and October of this year. October 12-14, our own Dr. Tolliver will be presenting a talk on Edgar Allan Poe!
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