I stared him out". This is also a good example of Heaney showing that man, in this poem, is dominant over nature. .
This idea of man winning the conflict brought over from "An Advancement of Learning" is not the main feature in "Roe-deer", as here a conflict ceases to exist. In this poem, it is the outcome of this on-going conflict that is affecting nature at this point in time. This conflict, which for man took a new turn after the industrial revolution, has resulted in man and nature living separate from one another even though they are symbiotic. In this poem, nature is trying to get back to man, as "The deer had come for me". But is faced with the barrier, which is symbolised by the car, and it seems as if man, who has manipulated and corrupted nature by now, does not want to. Instead, it is the deer which dictate nature's position to man, as they "ducked through the hedge away downhill over a snow-lonely field".
So already I can find some examples of the spiritual correspondence between man and nature in all three of these poems, which are all thematically linked by this on-going conflict/ correspondence between man and nature. .
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Nature and man's representations in each of the poems are all quite different, but all have a part in the basic story of this on-going interaction between man and nature. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", being the earliest of the three poems, has the "knight-at-arms", a chivalrous character, and the "full beautiful faery's child", a fantasy character, as nature and man's representations, as the whole poem has been based upon a fantasy story. This typical style of writing, using fantasy stories to illustrate something, is shows that this poem has a strong sense of spiritual correspondence between man and nature, as Keats has had to dream this poem up, whereas in "An Advancement of Learning", or even "Roe-Deer", the poets may have actually been through these experiences, and these poems could just be showing their emotions at the time.
