Story "How the World Was Made" and poems "This Newly Created World," "Dream Song," "I Have Killed the Deer," and "I Am Your Mother" all share themes.

There is one common theme between the short story "How the World Was Made" and the poems "This Newly Created World," "Dream Song," "I Have Killed the Deer," and "I Am Your Mother." They all share the theme that nature explains why many things are. In the short story "How the World Was Made," the story of creationalism is focused upon nature as the cause. Every one of Earth's mysteries is explained by nature. For …

…be loved in nature as a mother-like figure. This poem painfully states the abuse "mother" has taken and that it should be respected. "All this beauty was your to behold, Your duty was to love, cherish and protect; Feel my anguish, the pain in my soul, All I asked was your respect." All of the poems and the short story can clearly explain many mysteries, wonders, and beauties nature is trying to give to us.