Essential Oils- are wrung-The Attar from the RoseBe not expressed by Suns - aloneIt isthe gitt of Screws-The General Rose -decay-But this-in Lady's DrawerMake Summer - When the Lady lieIn Ceaseless Rosemary-One way of thinking about culture is to contrast it with nature. Nature refers to what is born and grows organically (trom the Latin nascere: to be born); culture refers to what has been grown and groomed (fromn the Latin colere: to cultivate). The word culture evokes the traditional nature/nurture debate: Are human beings mainly what nature determines them to be from birth or what culture enables them to become through socialization andschooling?EmilyDickinson'spoemexpresseswell,albeitina stylizedway,the relationship of nature, culture, and language. A r o s e in aflower bed, says the poem, a generic r o s e (The General Rose'), is a phenomenon of nature. Beautiful, yes, but faceless and namelessamong others of the same species. Perishable. Forgettable. Naturealone cannot reveal n o r preserve the particular beauty of a particular rose at a chosen moment in time. Powerless to preventthe biological 'decay' and the ultimate death of r o s e s and of ladies,nature can only make summer when the season is right. Culture,by contrast, is n o t bound by biological time. Like nature, it is agift, but of a different kind. Through a sophisticated techno-logical procedure, developed especially to extract the essence of roses, culture torces nature to reveal its 'essential' potentialities.The word "Screws suggests that this process is not without labor. Bycrushingthepetals,a greatdealoftherose mustbelostinorderto get at its essence. The technology of the screws constrains the
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