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Speculations In The Renaissance Era

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The Renaissance era can also be arguably in tune with nature and how we are woven into the world. While love can destroy us from the inside, the Earth can destroy our very being. Humans survive because of the Earth. We eat what is grown, and travel the along the soil. The world we know has such and impact on our live, that just the vastness of it causes fear and speculation. A speculation that has been promoted about the Earth was whether the Earth was flat or round. This has caused many speculations that even "The Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC) argued in his writings that the Earth was spherical, because of the circular shadow it cast on the Moon, during a lunar eclipse."(Stern). With new ideas came fear of the unknown, and what …show more content…

It creates natural disasters that can devastate many, and it can bring simple joys such as food. The Earth is ever moving as "It leans and heartens after it, / And grows erect, as that comes home." (Donne l. 31-32). Despite all this movement of the Earth, humans have made a home of it. Yet it destroys us just as we have destroyed its land and seas. Time and time again, we find that the natural disasters come after us when things are calm. Mankind has done so much to her precious glades and wondrous seas. The death and destruction of man is the Earth's retribution; she creates our rising and returns us to our falling point. And just as the Earth is round, her "firmness makes my circle just, / And makes me end where I begun." (Donne l. 35-36). She returns us to dust when all is said and done. Humans have no room to argue for we have doomed a once stunning planet by all of our wars, greed, and pollutants. Many can argue that love is the most harming factor of life, but Earth is our reason for being and our cause for falling. No words can describe how deep our roots go with the Earth, and despite the Earth building humans together; we only tear each other

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