– (Sample concordance on ‘bald' in Sylvia Plath’s poems,p248)
Case study:
The representation of nature on the BBC World Service (Text 22(1) 2002,in …4u\bbc’s view of nature)
Collocation in creatinwhite tumuli of your eyes.
2 3 4 5 6 She may be bald, she may have no eyes, She's a born midwife Nor leave me to set my small bald eye Skyward again, without hope, ed rocks sunning in rows, Bald eyes or petrified eggs. Grownups estone The bald slots of his eyes stiffened wide open On the inc right around my bed, Mouthless, eyeless,with stitched bald head
• Results
– – – – Nature is „affected‟ rather than „actor‟ Weather & disease most powerful, while plants & minerals least Nature is marginalized as „environment‟ , powerless vis-a-vis human BBC view of nature different from Wordsworth‟s in 1850s