Two poems, "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop and "The Meadow Mouse" by Theodore Roethke, include characters who experience, learn and are inspired by nature. . In the poem "The Fish" by Elizabeth Bishop, a fisherman catches a fish, probably with the intention of killing 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 meadow mouse with the intention of keeping it and protecting it from the wild, but it escapes into the wild. 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 where a man learns from his experience and interaction with nature. In “The Meadow Mouse,” the man instantly finds himself as 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." Through his instant love and the pain of losing the mouse, he learns how he truly feels about nature. Set in a different scene, the fisherman from "The Fish,...