Summary of the Essay Nature and Panic by Poet C.K. Williams (Essay Sample)

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A summary of the essay nature and panic by poet C.K. Williams
The author is first trying to show the relationship between human doings and nature of life. He mentions that if there is a human doing that is of significance is the utilitarian artifacts for fishing and hunting which are Paleolithic paintings in the caves found in France and Spain. William doesn't have an idea why these work stopped, and why artist started it in the first place.
William thinks that most people are tempted to imitate the ideas of people who died a long time ago and start figuring out how they lived their life. He is using himself as an example; he mentions that when while daydreaming, he see his poor ancestors that lived in constant fear of life threats such as the drought and erratic cold.
The question in his mind is, were the people that lived in the past anxious about themselves as we are. Referring to the Paleolithic painting, the author establishes that there is little proof of anguish in the subjection of discussion. He supports his claims by demonstrating that the creatures in the art are depicting a sense of life as they are full of love. There is no sign of hardship. For example, there is a photo of a lion but people her with a sense of humor. At some point, there is a picture of a person having killed by a bison, and researchers link the death to myths. The paintings in the cave have some mysterious human figures, spears, and researcher presumes these people were murdered or even tortured. But the surprise is if the society which the artist lived was full of fear, as opposed to what is happening in their work. The reveal that the span of years was not short as anticipated. Evidence suggest during that era people lived beyond fifty years.
At some point, the author is visiting the past to consider the current human existence, and he finds out there have been enough reasons for anxiety. For instance the issue of climate change which attributed to a drought that brought about dying of reindeer which was the primary human food. The author doesn't know if at some point there is any single person or a group that could have been aware of these predicaments. He is arguing if there could have been a history to contain t...