Two poems, "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop and "The Meadow Mouse" by Theodore Roethke, include characters who experiment, learn, and feel emotions with nature . In Elizabeth Bishop's poem “The Fish,” a fisherman catches a fish, probably intending to kill it, but releases it when he sees the world through the fish's eyes. In Theodore Roethke's poem “The Meadow Mouse,” a man finds a prairie mouse with the intention of keeping it and protecting it from nature, but it escapes into the wilderness. These poems, set in different scenarios, highlight two scenarios in which men and women interact with nature and experience it in their own ways. Each poem describes a scene in which a man learns from his experience and interaction with nature. In “The Meadow Mouse” the man immediately finds himself a father figure to the mouse he finds. When the mouse leaves, he thinks of the dangers of nature like “the turtle panting in the dusty rubble of the highway.” From his instant love and grief over the loss of the mouse, he learns how he truly feels about nature. Set in a different scene, the fisherman in “The Fish,...