Analysis Of Nature, By Ray Bradbury

The author uses a pair of similes to help people have a picture in their head about the story. In the story he says ¨It was empty as a jungle glade at a hot high noon¨. This simple quote makes the story a whole lot more realistic. You can practically feel the hot sun pouring down on your back. It helps people form an illustration in their head about what is happening in the story. Another simile used is ¨The house lights followed her like a flock of fireflies.¨ This quote

Figurative language is powerful, and Bradbury is not afraid of a metaphor. He uses an excessive amount to orchestrate

The seasons in the poem also can be seen as symbols of time passing in her life. Saying that in the height of her life she was much in love and knew what love was she says this all with four words “summer sang in me.” And as her life is in decline her lovers left her, this can be told by using “winter” as a symbol because it is the season of death and decline from life and the birds left the tree in winter. The “birds” can be seen as a literal symbol of the lovers that have left her or flown away or it can have the deeper meaning that in the last stages of our life all of our memories leave us tittering to our selves.

The author Bradbury uses a lot of literary devices in his novel. The most obvious literary technique is a dialogue. Throughout the book, Bradbury builds up the setting

The poem starts with a description of the setting of a summer day, Levertov writes: “The fire in leaf and grass/ so green it seems/ each summer the last summer”. The green leaf and grass refers to a fresh new day, which emphasizes a good day to start in the summer. The author goes on with her describing the beautiful sunshine of the summer by giving the images of the wind, the leaf and the sun. She writes: “The wind blowing, the leaves/ shivering in the sun, / each day the last day”. The poet uses the words “fire, blowing, and shivering” to gives us how urgent and immediate we feel in our lives. It is also a reminder the poet wants to send us that these beautiful natural things won’t last forever, as well as we

In Literature, rhetorical devices are often used to place emphasis on certain ideas or descriptions, to make an idea clearer, or to provide insight and to smoothly relate topics. Throughout his collection of essays, Scott Russell Sanders utilizes rhetorical devices in order to make his statements and ideas more vivid and clear for the reader. The rhetorical devices offer a more descriptive and insightful look into Sanders’ thoughts on his childhood, personality, and view of the world around him. Throughout the book, Sanders’ uses rhetorical devices ranging from allusions of events and people from the past to employing a varied tone in order give the audience a clear view into his thoughts

In Richard Matheson's novel, the author uses a range of rhetorical devices to emphasize what Robert Neville is going through. In lines 1-5, the author uses a metaphor and similes to compare things to a character being appeared. In line 1, the author highlights a metaphor to compare a man to a shredder, for example, "his voice a grating rasp", which means that the man's voice is loud and shredded like a shredder being used to cut anything. In lines 1-2, the author mentions simile to compare a man's appearance to a turkey, for example, "He saw the man's throat moving like clammy turkey skin," which means that the man's throat is moving wobbly as similar to a turkey's skin.

Imagery was also used in the poem.  I found that the yellow in the first line represented that the future the writer was facing was bright and warm regardless of his choice.  The undergrowth was, as undergrowth in any forest, damp and dank smelling, but not necessarily unpleasant, just something that the writer would have to face.  The image of traveling through a forest also brings to mind thoughts of birds in flight, chirping and singing.  Squirrels dashing through trees, rustling leaves and dropping the occasional acorn or nut also create an image of sight and sound.  The sun reflecting through the trees, casting shadows and creating pockets of warm and cool air and the occasional breeze stirring through the trees are also brought to mind by this poem.  The end of the poem brings to me

In Ray Bradbury's novel Dandelion wine, the author uses a variety of rhetorical devices to emphasize the imagination of Douglas. Through using rhetorical devices the author is trying to make the reader see Douglas summer as the way Douglas sees it. In lines 1-30, the author uses similes and metaphors to show how Douglas compares two different things. In the quote," trees washed together, he flashed his gaze like a beacon" the author is comparing the trees to water and Douglas gaze to a lighthouse, which reinforces how the author is using imagery to show Douglas magical imagination.

One of the first topics that environmental historians sought to examine was the relationship between nature and military strategy. The bulk of these initial studies analyze the how both Union and Confederate forces focused their strategies around the acquisition of natural resources such as food and horses in order to gain an advantage on the battlefield. Ted Steinberg was one of the first to adapt this approach to his research in his book Down to Earth: Nature’s Role in History. In his chapter on the Civil War, Steinberg argues that the conflict was essentially a “great food fight” and proceeds to detail how generals on both sides of the conflict had to accommodate their military strategies around the procurement of food. While Steinberg notes

There is some unexplained phenomenon in the universe. Curiosity has been an integral role in finding answers, leading to our species’ advancement. From the discovery of fire by ancient ancestors to modern space explorations, it has been of curiosity and pursuit for a better future that has made humans explore and innovate. The idea for such adventures has been part of fiction such as Ray Bradbury’s The Illustrated Man. In this book with 18 science fiction short stories published in 1951, Bradbury explores the nature of mankind. A recurring theme is the clash between technology and psychology of people, along with the frame story of a tattooed vagrant dubbed “the Illustrated Man,” which links the disparate stories together. However, exploration and innovation has never come without sacrifice. In regard to modern space exploration, the efforts to explore the universe has had negative effects including the loss of lives, a tremendous investment of money, as well as adverse environmental effects both within the planet earth and the solar system. The idea of space travelling and giving life to other planets has long been part of the human imagination. Today this idea seems to be close to becoming a reality through the Mars One project, as this project plans to send 100 people to Mars by 2024 to from the first human colony there. These sacrifices have made in efforts of propelling humanity into its most technologically and scientifically advanced stages.

In the book, The Control of Nature by John McPhee, one can see humans in a multitude of locations attempting to control the various aspects of their natural environment. Furthermore, it is clear that the three enduring understandings of Earth Science are present throughout the book as an ongoing theme. The first, the idea that energy, from the Sun and from Earth’s interior, drives all of Earth’s cycles and processes, can be interpreted in many different ways. However, in the different sections of the book, one sees that the Sun can cause weather patterns and can lead to different outcomes. Additionally, the energy, or power, resulting from the intense heat and pressure from the Earth’s interior, can cause volcanic eruptions. As for the idea that matter moves through Earth’s spheres in cyclical processes, over varying periods of time, and at different scales, one can see that water, land, plant matter, and even molten rock come and go in a definite period, whether it is thirty years, or even centuries. In regards to the third idea, that Earth’s surfaces and processes are altered by human engineering, one can see a plethora of examples in the book. The energy from the Sun and from Earth’s interior and the events that are caused from that energy can cause humans to alter the surfaces and processes of Earth by building everything from levees to basins and can even cause humans to make an attempt at cooling flowing

The state of nature as Thomas Hobbes claims is violent, dangerous and solitary. In a state of nature mankind is subjected to constant fear of death and it essentially runs every aspect of mans life. Yet a human is a rational being and there is a drive to get rid of this fear, one of the rights that Hobbes brings up is the right of self preservation and the fact that a man must not bring harm to himself. Hobbes discusses how natural rights are different than natural laws, as laws address obligations and rights are liberties. Hobbes talks about how in the absence of civil society, human rights and lust take over and create “the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” (Leviathan). Hobbes then declares that in order for humans to live peacefully, they must give up many natural rights and create moral obligations to create such civil society. Humans did this as they realized that anarchy was dangerous and the “war as is every man against every man” (Leviathan) was nothing desirable, so man being rational and self-concerned, voluntarily surrendered their sovereignty to a common power which kept all men under control and safe.

Throughout the four seasons people would mostly say that summer is there favorite season. Why do people tend to enjoy summer so much? Could it be that during the summer the weather gets hot during the day and warm at night? Could it be that you can venture off to different places like the beach with your family and friends or sticking your toes in the water or sand? Whatever the case may be the summer time seems to be the season to have fun, laugh, and relax. In the Backpack Literature textbook on chapter 14, it focuses on figures of speech. Figures of speech is a big part of literature that people need to learn. How is figures of speech very important to our everyday use? I feel like in literature it is important for people to understand the meanings that the authors and also yourself are expressing in a story, poem, speech, and many more literary contexts. Dealing with figurative language you are going to see examples like metaphors, similes, oxymoron’s, personifications, and so much that refer in a context. In this particular poem that I will be discussing about has metaphors and similes. The poem, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day by Howard Moss. There is always other version on this poem by William Shakespeare that was a sonnet but I feel like Howard Moss wanted to put he own spin-off of the Shakespeare’s poem. In Howard Moss poem, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day, he express how much the person he admires mean to him with metaphors and similes. Howard Moss

The imagery is powerful. Summer is personified as battling against time. Summer, in reality, is a time when life begins to die out as the colder months come in, so nature and the plants are in fragile condition. “Summer’s honey breath” reflects the flowers and plants so beautiful and transient in summer, the nature that keeps “Summer” alive. But the “wrackful siege of batt’ring days” comes to kill this beauty. The progression of the