Called Out, Hope For Animals And Their World, And Carry

In the poem by Joy Harjo called “Eagle Poem,” Harjo talks about prayer and life and how they revolve around mother-nature. She suggests that while being one with nature, we feel we are in a place in which we haven’t imagined and the things in which we would love to do in that magnificent and calming place. After one reads the poem, he/she enjoys the lyrical type of it. This is because “Eagle Poem” sticks to one idea and extends it throughout the entire poem. For instance, it talks about prayer, nature, and animals from start to finish.

Rachel Carson is a noted biologist who studies biology, a branch of science addressing living organisms, yet she has written a book called Silent Spring to speak about the harmful effects of pesticides on nature. Carson doesn’t write about birds’ genetic and physical makeup, the role of them in the animal food chain, or even how to identify their unbelievable bird songs, yet strongly attests the fight for a well developed environment containing birds, humans, and insects is just and necessary. To Carson, the war for a natural environment is instantly essential for holding on to her true love for the study of biology. Thus Carson claims that whether it be a direct hit towards birds or an indirect hit towards humans and wildlife, farmers need to understand the effects and abandon the usage of pesticides in order to save the environment by appealing to officials, farmers, and Americans in her 1962 book, Silent Spring. She positions her defense by using rhetorical devices such as rhetorical questioning to establish logos, juxtaposing ideas, and using connotative and denotative diction.

To elaborate, the reader can not truly hear what is taking place in the poem, but does get a sense of being able to hear what they are reading. For instance when the speaker says “While his gills were breathing in” (22), the reader can almost hear the fish breathing. The speaker again stimulates the auditory senses when she says “and a fine black thread, / still crimped from the strain and snap” (58-59). Again the reader can virtually hear the sound of the line snapping. The next aspect of imagery that needs to be examined is the sensory imagery. An excellent example of sensory imagery is found when reading the lines “It was more like the tipping, / of an object toward light” (43-44). These lines can give an almost unbalanced feeling to the reader as they conceptualize these words. Imagery is not the only important element used in this poem. As stated earlier, irony is an important component involved in “The Fish”.

State three or four of the most important points from these readings in your own, succinct phrasing.

Gene Stratton-Porter uses this technique in her book, Moths of the Limberlost. Instead of talking about chemicals and pesticides and the dangers of using then, Stratton-Porter gets us to think about the environment by promoting it. “Then the Winter Swamp had all the lacy exquisite beauty of such locations when snow and frost draped, while from May until October it was practically tropical jungle,” she writes (Citation here). Not only does she focus on the land and plants, but she also talks about the animals that live in this swamp, primarily moths, calling them, “fragile night wanderers” and “moonflowers of June’s darkness” (Citation here). The Limberlost Swamp sounds like a beautiful place that you would want to visit, right? Of course, the hidden implication is that you can’t, or at least not unless humans change the way we treat the environment.

The writer compares his life to water on Rouge River that is heading towards dead end with unknown future. “And my reflection is dominated by water Coming to impasse, the teeter-totter Of decision” from the poem shows the seriousness and thought provoking idea i.e. contemplation probably related to meaning of life and what lies ahead. Moreover, “And plunging in we find a serene cavernous strength, And pressed to run its darkness at full length, We find our all”, reflects tone of believing in ourselves and the best we have in us. This means no matter the situation we can bring the best of us that is life. Tone of the poem helps writer to make the poem more appealing to the readers. It aids the poet to express his feeling more effectively and

Jonathan Edwards is indicating that in the eyes of God, God looks at the puritans with such loathe. When referring to an insect, it is implying how God is more disgusted by his people actions than an insect. With this intention, imagery is portrayed to reveal a scary image rather than angry. Furthermore, Jonathan Edwards

“Ink smeared like bird prints in snow” is the first simile that appears in the poem and serves multiple purposes. The most obvious one is the creation of imagery, where it compares the black words the persona writes on paper to the bird’s foot prints that are left behind when a bird walks on snow. The imagery alludes that the persona will leave a “footprint” in the form of a note that people can use to trace her path but she will never be there anymore. From line thirty-six to forty, the poet creates another imagery of a sparrow (a tiny and a delicate bird) flying in windy snowing weather. The sparrow is dizzied and sullied by the violent wind; it encounters a lot of difficulties and fear. In this imagery, the persona compares herself with the delicate bird. She compares the challenges that the sparrow goes through to the suffering she encounters relating to her parents.

In 17 chapters, many of which can stand alone as essays, Carson develops a deceptively simple premise: the use and overuse of synthetic chemicals to control insect pests introduces these chemicals into the air, water, and soil and into the food chain where they poison animals and humans, and disrupt the many intricate

Bogard offers his first argument at the beginning of the second paragraph, and continues into the third paragraph, making points based on common sense, as well as referencing scientific studies. He mentions that the World Health Organization, and the American Medical Association agree with his views. Referencing these kinds of big names is important for Mr. Bogard to do, in order to show his readers that his statements are valid. After stating his points on the problems humans experience from light pollution, Mr. Bogard takes a look at the animal kingdom in paragraph four. Here, he uses statistics and numbers to back up his points, saying things like "400 species of birds that migrate at night in North America" and "moths that pollinate 80% of the world’s flora."

Throughout the poem, the speaker faces a decision that either benefits man or nature, reflecting an opposition between wildlife and humanity. Stafford uses the poem as an apparent metaphor, representing life. In life, people are

Also, what do you think is revealed about the nature of insect life? Do you think what insects do is nonmoral? Or do you think insects don’t have the brain capacity to feel remorse for “nonmoral” things they do. Gould went over issues with different insects, one of the insects that he talked a great deal about is the ichneumon wasp.

At the very beginning of the book we are informed the Tom enjoy insects. At church one day, Tom released what he called a “pinch beetle” into the pews of the church. This lead to a dog attempting to eat the beetle, but in the end the beetle pinched the dog and ran away. By this time, the whole church had been watching.

The first three stanzas describe nature, featuring animals and plants being shown in a positive way. Then the last three stanzas tell us, that mankind died out in a war and nature - not noticing it - goes on.

She tries to get across the fact that the aerial spraying campaigns to kill the gypsy moth in the northern states and the fire ant in the southern states were very much damaging, ineffective and also expensive. This incident had a chain reaction resulting in crop failure, hurting wildlife and also cattle products (such as milk) and vegetables were found having DDT and thus unhealthy for human consumption.