Compare And Contrast John Audubon And Annie Dillard

Despite any futile resistance, every living creature eventually succumbs to death. Ultimately, death is part of living. Death is inevitable. Likewise, although a diminutive moth may appear to be insignificant and pathetic, it can symbolize the true, many connections between the duality of life and death and human beings. For instance, Annie Dillard and Virginia Woolf illustrate similar, universal messages of the value of life through the metaphor of a moth. However, the manner in which they portray their themes and purpose varies, for their personal experiences and writing styles influence their provisions of life and death.

From behind me I heard, ”caw . . . caw . . . caw,” cries echoing across the sky. I ducked and watched hundreds of huge black birds fly over my head. “Where did they come from?”

"Birds don 't live alone, I told myself. They live in flocks. Like people. People are always in a group. Like that little wooden band. And whenever there 's a group, there 's fighting. If the people in the group get along, maybe they make good music instead of arguing....That 's how life is. I stared at that marching band. Then I got in the car and drove home” (Whirligig 62). This quote from Paul Fleischman’s Whirligig shows the reader his artful way of connecting nature to the human element; a way for those observing nature to learn from it. Throughout various pieces of Fleischman 's work, an insightful use of nature is used to help

Both authors John James Audubon and Annie Dillard are profoundly affected by the birds they describe in the respective passages. Although they are going through similar phenomena, the authors conveying of the effect it had on them is very different. Audubon takes a more scientific approach and looks to inform the reader with an objective view about his encounter with the birds. Dillard does precisely the opposite and rather than inform she looks to entertain the reader with an artistic and subjective view towards her encounter with the birds.

As they continued walking past the bakeries, shops, and bars they noticed an abundance of birds. At first, hardly noticeable, there were the starlings and crows you would usually walk past, however there started to be bluejays and snipes. Which they thought, well that’s strange, why they only are here during the summer and it’s the middle of January. As they continued to walk there was more and more birds. Soon they practically filled the streets. Most of them were crows, however there were other birds such as the summer birds, along with parrots, geese and birds that are only found in other countries.

In “The Season of Phantasmal Peace,” Walcott attempts to debunk the lie of imperialism. The poem, in the form of a poetic fable, tells of the time when “all the nations of birds lifted together / the huge net of the shadows of this earth” (1-2). Walcott’s birds may represent the colonizers who came from many different nations and brought with them “multitudinous dialects” (3). The specific birds that Walcott mentions geese, ospreys, starlings, and killdeer are all migratory birds that nest in colonies. Like the European colonists, the birds travel many miles to enjoy the abundance of natural resources in warmer climates. Walcott’s poem seems to address the temporary nature of the colonists’ occupation of native lands and mourn the permanent effects that the disruption of native culture incurred. Walcott writes, “this season lasted one moment…but for such as our earth is now, it lasted long” (33-35). The fact that the birds only periodically nest together in a particular area could address the temporary occupation and the historical flight of imperial nations from colonized lands. The purpose of Walcott’s poem seems to require the reader’s honest consideration of the long-term effects of European imperialism on colonized peoples and their descendants.

Every good author knows that being able to paint a picture in a reader’s head is one of the most important parts of composition. But, does the reader always get the image the author is trying to portray? Let’s first start with, what is imagery? Imagery is visually descriptive or figurative language, especially in a literary work. This could be painting a scene in a reader’s mind, or it could be engaging all the senses to give the reader every detail of what the character is going through. Two authors that seem to effortlessly compose works with imagery are Emily Dickinson and James Greenleaf Whittier. Emily Dickinson and James Greenleaf Whittier both articulated imagery masterfully in their work. Dickinson showed this in ‘Success Is Counted Sweetest,’ and Whittier in ‘Snowbound.’Dickinson’s imagery is more sensory than Whittier’s, which is more visual. The reader can see this when comparing their poems. Dickinson’s last stanza of ‘Success Is Counted Sweetest,’ makes the image described vivid, raising hairs on the readers neck. “As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear, The distant strains of triumph, Break, agonized and clear.” This stanza shows that this defeated soldier is tortured by the sounds of the victory parade, even as he lies dying on the battlefield. But, he knows what victory is in its entirety, because you must be totally denied something before you can truly appreciate what it is. This is much more sensory than Whittier’s lines from ‘Snowbound,’ which is more visual. “All day the gusty north wind

In the poem, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, the Albatross makes a marvelous appearance as it carries the wind on its backside in guiding a seemingly doomed ship through dangerous sea waters. This poem alludes to the majestic beauty and unique qualities of the Albatross. Many century old legends and myths are a product of the observations of the Albatross by sailors. Science has come a long way in understanding the capabilities and nature of the Albatross. However, despite numerous publications about this bird, none can quite explain the awe an observer feels when they first lay eyes on this beautiful sea bird.

They were storming through the forest tripping on their own feet and the broken twigs that were scattered across the forest floor ,breathing heavily and fatigued with the glazing hot summer sun shining directly on them making them sweat heavily, but still it was chasing them. It's roar of anger and frustration would scare the birds out of the trees making a cluster of all the flapping birds wing.

The rhyme scheme and or the rhythmically breaking up the meter with the long dashes. The dashes represents at some of the end of a line and creating long pauses. The poem is about seeing a bird coming down the walk, unaware that it was being watched. The bird was scared so it glanced its eyes around to see if anyone is there. Then the bird flew away to a pond-like area swimming in it.

The bird is watching for food, he sees something and he jumps off the mountain to get it. That is why in the poem it says ,”The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, and like a thunderbolt he falls.” The author says “The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls”, that gave me a visual of the sea waving. back and forth. When the author said “He watches from his mountain walls”, made me visualize a big eagle perched on top the mountain.

The poet feels that the hawk is strong and focused as is shown on the

The paradox of the Oven Bird's assertive voice completes the suggestion that only a new "language" can accommodate the diminishing of things, for he neither sings nor speaks: he "knows in singing not to sing" and he frames his question "in all but words." He neither sinks nor soars, and he lives in a solid, domed house that typifies his Yankee ingenuity, his forethought, his prudence. In a voice of virile moderation, loud but unhysterical, he sets out to articulate his surroundings.

One day as Lum looked to the sky with hopeful eyes, he noticed something was different. Momma had always said there were twelve birds, yet yesterday there were eleven. Now, as Lum squinted his hopeful eyes to the horizon, he counted ten birds, one after the last, soaring up above. He was not the only one to notice. People gaped at the sky, not only at the birds, but Lum could

Imagery is used to express how time occurs in a series of continuous moments, but for us mortals, this time has an end. Within the image of how “so soon a bird sings, a cock crows” (139), the birds acts as symbols for the coming morning, for the crowing of a cock is often associated with sunrise and morning. The call of these birds follows the moment “darkness dims so soon” (139), and with the repetition of how the birds appear “so soon” after the “short space” of a single night, the narrative voice creates an image of the continuous cycle of day and night-a cycle that is intimately connected to nature. Following this bird imagery, the narrative voice depicts how following the night, “a faint green quickens, like a turning leaf, in the hollow of the wave”. These images are all connected to a natural world separated from