Nature: What's Gross is Good!
Some little kids can really get down with gross. Why do you think Gak and Slime were so money for Nickelodeon? There's just something appealing and intriguing about stinky and slimy stuff. Maybe it...
Nature: What's Gross is Threatening!
At some point in the poem, things turn sour (with all that rotting and festering, how could it not?). A little more insight and a little more experience, and all of a sudden all that was pleasantly...
Innocence: Meet "The Young Naturalist"
Our young speaker is alive with curiosity and amazement. He's super-stoked about what nature dishes out to him, particularly the gooey bits gurgling away in the flax dam. He listens with awe as his...
Loss of Innocence (or the "Death of a Naturalist")
Scratch that. It looks like the speaker will not be the next Jane Goodall or Steve Irwin. Our little speaker has lost some of that innocence and as a result, the naturalist in him has died. RIP. So...