Write about Which of the poems assigned this week is most appealing to you, which is least appealing to you, and why?

Carefully read the following poems, focusing again primarily on the relationship between religion and nature in each one:William Cullen Bryant, 536-538, “Thanatopsis,” 538-539Bryant, “To a Waterfowl,” 540Ralph Waldo Emerson, “A moody child and worldly wise,” 613Emerson, “Each and All,” 628-629Walt Whitman, [Section 6 from “Song of Myself”] “A child said, ‘What is the grass?’,” 1092-1093Whitman, [Section 41 from “Song of Myself”] “I am he bringing help for the sick…,” 1122-1123Emily Dickinson, 1246-1250, “These are the days when birds come back,” 1251Dickinson, “‘Faith’ is a fine Invention,” 1252Dickinson, “Some keep the Sabbath going to Church,” 1255write in 150 words about the relationship between nature and religion in one of these poems, paraphrasing the author’s use of nature imagery and ideas about nature as these seem to relate to his or her ideas/feelings about religion. What IS the idea/feeling, exactly? Write about Which of the poems assigned this week is most appealing to you, which is least appealing to you, and why? (Your reasons don’t have to be concerned mainly with the poets’ ideas about religion or nature; they might have to do with imagery, or tone, or feel.) Book to use:The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Shorter 9th Edition, Volume 1, Beginnings to 1865 (Robert S. Levine, General Editor).