Pastoral and Anti-Pastoral

Write in or against the pastoral tradition.

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Pastoral elements:
- Idealized rural landscape
- Shepherd figures
- Harmony with nature
- Escape from urban corruption
- Simple pleasures celebrated

Anti-pastoral moves:
- Nature as indifferent or cruel
- Rural poverty and labor
- Ecological damage
- Ironic distance from idealization
- Nature as alien to human

Draft either:
- A contemporary pastoral that earns its idealization
- An anti-pastoral that complicates pastoral assumptions
- A poem that oscillates between pastoral and anti-pastoral

Annotate your relationship to the tradition.