Rosalia De Castro is exactly the same as the recent poets we have gone over in class. She uses the same themes of nature and believes it speaks to those who are willing or able to listen. In the poem “Some say plants don’t speak,” Castro uses specific words like plants, fountains, birds, waves and stars to create this image of nature and her surroundings for the reader. Illustrating nature in her work and then going to the extent of saying it spoke of her as this “madwomen” dreaming of eternal beauty. Castro definitely reminded me of Shelly and Baudelaire in how descriptive and kien to detail they’re. However, Castro is a lot more into nature and strays away from making the reader uncomfortable like Baudelaire. In this particular poem Castro describes how all these aspects of nature mock her for believing in their eternal beauty, and as she ages the beauty remains there. Going back to the idea of beautiful versus ugly within nature, separating what matters apart from what doesn’t. She shows, or at least tries to show, the reader that nature is this beautiful gift given to us remaining alongside human beings since the beginning of time.