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Record W3044247562 · doi:10.4324/9780367344092-22

“Nature is never spent”?

2020· book-chapter· en· W3044247562 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Deborah C. Bowen

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicEnvironmental Philosophy and Ethics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHistory

Abstract

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Gerard Manley Hopkins in “God’s Grandeur” (1877) considered the negative effects of humankind on God’s good creation and concluded that “nature is never spent:/There lives the dearest freshness deep down things” – not because nature has inherent power, but because “the Holy Ghost over the bent/World broods”. In our own recently named Age of the Anthropocene, in which the overwhelming effects of human intervention into the created order are seen as well-nigh irreversible, it can be difficult to maintain Hopkins’ calm assurance. This essay considers three poems by contemporary Canadian poets of differing spiritual persuasions for whom poetry provides a prophetic voice in which to propose alternative modes of ecological being. P. K. Page in “Planet Earth” sees the work of human hands as vital for the health of the planet, but only when combined with the care of archangels and art as an act of love. Don McKay in “Twinflower” enacts the “poetic attention” that he calls “a species of longing which is without the desire to possess” and celebrates in botanical whimsy “the wilderness of the other.” John Terpstra in “Flames of Affection, Tongues of Flame” shows how paying attention even to rocky outcrops in broken urban nature can be a lifegiving experience that challenges the status quo and reminds us of the transcendent. All three poets honour the natural world in prophetic voices that arouse hope by encouraging attention and creative response.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.271
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1890.057

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.197 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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