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This analysis uncovers how poetics shapes our understanding of landscape, emphasizing its relation to the observer and earthly areas.
Landscape is not a location or an area waiting to be discovered and identified. It is rather discerned and formed by selecting and favoring an area of the earth’s surface, by recognizing it and considering it notable. A landscape is an area of the natural world in relation to an observer.
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