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Claiming that their is a “spirit in the woods” (55), both personifies nature in that it has a deeper and non-material essence in the same way humans do and grants nature agency, the ability to react as it would will towards the various individuals it engages with. Nature in Byron is explained based upon frameworks of nature entrenched in physics, rationality, and necessity and as a result do not allow for the freedom of nature or of humans for that matter. “Nutting,” contrary to Darkness, also places blame or at least causal status of some sort upon humanity and not nature itself. It is the speaker that either as a result of greed, or passion, or floral lust, corrupts the virgin scene that he comes across within nature and is subsequently affected with pain. In darkness we see that it is nature’s effects over man that degrade and corrupt man due to his inability to escape nature's scope. In the context of “Nutting” we find that it is humankind's decisions that are causally linked to a destruction and degradation of nature due to a self-imposed estrangement from nature. A theme of Romantic literature and particularly its poetry is nature man’s relationship to nature. William Wordsworth and Lord Byron, both greats of literary tradition