Nature/Self/Bible

I really look forward to getting my copy of Frye's book after reading Emily's latest post about the self and how nature is the content of art's form. This notion reminded me of some of the themes we are talking about in the capstone class with Dr. Morgan. As some of you may know the class's theme is Dark Romanticism and it deals with these ideas in regards to how we as people and artists are to feel about and sequentially describe nature in our lives and our art.

I am one to argue that, yes, most of what art is and means comes from the inside of us, obviouly the inside of us is influenced my numerous and diverse sets of stimuli. However, this notion of the self should not be diminished especially with a text as significant as the Bible. Again I think we all come to this text with, to say the least, different points of view, but we can all talk about it in a somewhat objective basis. This can be done it we wade through the overwhelming allusions we make when reading the Bible and get down to how each part of it is a story with a non-detachable moral. Here I think is the key to reading and enjoying the Bible in regards to nature. We must look at how the Bible speaks to us in the way that it is a story, and then we can take this point of view and apply it to our world which is the most worthy context.