Okefenokee Swamp Analysis

In the poem crossing the swamp the relationship between the speaker and the swamp is that the swamp is what the author puts in as her problem. She’s trying to compare the swamp to her problem, “here is the endless wet think cosmos” both of the speaker and the swamp share fear “I feel not wet as much as paintable and glittered.”

The two passages describe Okefenokee Swamp in two very different views. The passages are similar in some ways, but the style with which they are written are very different. Passage I is written in a very plain matter to simply describe the swamp, while passage II uses a multitude of adjectives to create imagery and gives the reader a whole new view of the place. Also, they have different sentence structures. Passage II uses many complex and compound sentences compared to passage I; however, passage I uses longer

In the novel Longboat Bay are the starting and the main setting. The characters Abel and his mother Dora lives on the land of Longboat Bay. The lands have been the Jacksons land for more than a century and have been taking care of it since now. Abel lives in a place with no main electricity from the city and no water except rainwater. The land around them is a national park and behind the house is the orchard. This is shown in the quote “and all the land around them was a national park.” And “there were orange and lemon trees in the orchard as well as olives and mulberries.” The sea is “rich in life” and the author invites the reader to want to care for the sea. This technique shows the beauty of the sea and the land around it.

Nature has a powerful way of portraying good vs. bad, which parallels to the same concept intertwined with human nature. In the story “Greasy Lake” by T. Coraghessan Boyle, the author portrays this through the use of a lake by demonstrating its significance and relationship to the characters. At one time, the Greasy Lake was something of beauty and cleanliness, but then came to be the exact opposite. Through his writing, Boyle demonstrates how the setting can be a direct reflection of the characters and the experiences they encounter.

The speaker also chooses her diction precisely, so that there is clear contribution to the overall idea that the poem is indeed about the quest for change and longing from escape from the swamp. Two very different forms of description are used to represent this source of dread: once by the simple name, swamp, and

Twain uses imagery, analytical diction, and extended metaphor in order to remind people to step back and see the beauty in things they now find mundane. Mark Twain uses Imagery throughout the first paragraph in order to illustrate the mystique of the Mississippi River before he became the captain of a steamboat. He describes the water as being “broken by boiling, tumbling rings, that were as many-tinted as an opal[.]” He describes the water as being like the semi-precious stone opal in order to symbolize the value and beauty of it. Later in the paragraph he remarks, “There were graceful curves, reflected images, woody heights, [and] soft distances.”

Throughout “Crossing the Swamp”, Mary Oliver compares life’s obstacles and hardships with the conditions of a swamp. She eventually displays that success and elation could not occur if not for hardships. Oliver tries to bridge the gap between the idea of crossing a swamp and the journey of life itself. She skillfully utilizes a fractured and varied structure, swamp-like imagery, and a change in tone to reveal that without hardship, success would not be possible.

Silver Creek Wetland Complex is a rare coastal wetland found along the eastern side of the Nottawasaga Bay Shoreline. It falls within the town boundary of the Town of Collingwood, which was formally a part of the Town of Blue Mountains. Because the area is a part of the greater Silver Creek Watershed, the marshy land is classified as a Schedule B Category 1 land under Environmental Protection as per the Official Plan of the Town of Collingwood. Blue Mountain Trust Watershed Practice monitors the watershed and the significant wetland is protected and maintained by Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority. The 2700 Ha watershed flows through the “Lake of Clouds” by Castle Glen, down the Niagara Escarpment, where the 160 Ha complex at the

Oliver starts off by using imagery to describe the struggle with the swamp as a sense of hardship, and challenge. Her descriptions utilizes dark diction such as “endless,” “wet,” “dark,” “pale,” “black,” “slack,” “pathless,” “seamless,” and ‘peerless”, which gives the reader a sense of hopelessness and despair. Oliver also uses enjambment to emphasize the swamp as a never ending trail and symbolize

According to the speaker, the swamp is “endless wet thick cosmos, the center of everything,” (line 1). The implication that this swamp is the center of everything can allude to how long the speaker may have been engulfed within it. It seems as if he/she has reached a point in which the swamp is infecting his/her mind as much as it is taking over the body. The speaker even begins to compare him/herself to “a poor dry stick given one more chance by the whims of the swamp water.” (line 28). This person, in beginning to view him/herself as part of the swamp, communicates to the reader effectively describing the direness of the situation, and the point of return that seems to be slipping away.

The writer wields literary devices such as figurative language to establish an earthy connection between the swamp and mankind. Then, he uses personification to coalesce life within the swamp and relate the harsh environs of the swamp to the struggles we encounter in life as human beings. Finally, the author uses a shifting tone to enlighten both the harsh swamp and struggling speaker with a sense of optimism. After all, even in the darkest times and in the darkest swamps, we can take a mere stick, nurture it, and "make its life a breathing palace of leaves"

In Mary Oliver’s “Crossing the Swamp”, the speaker compares a swamp to the struggles and hardships in life that fight against her. The speaker repeatedly contrasts herself to the swamp to emphasize the vastness of the swamp, conveying how the speaker understands the hardships that come with life.

In Crossing the Swamp, Mary Oliver exposes human nature to its simplest state; the passion for life present in the natural world transforms the individual by bringing one closer to the sublime. The spirituality teeming in Oliver’s swamp metaphorically represents hidden beauty within the mundane, as a call for shifted perspective and dignified appreciation permeates the passage.

A good writer possesses the ability to change an audience’s point of view on a specific topic using only pen and parchment. Such is the case with a set of essays written on the Okefenokee Swamp. Passage 1, written in 1988, serves to educate with a textbook-like didactic tone, and simultaneously give a positive view of the vast beauty of the swamp. Passage 2 on the other hand, written in 1990, illustrates the animalistic and wild side of the swamp, showing it as a horrible, disgusting, and endless place. While both essays are significantly different, they equally utilize visual imagery, strong diction, and parallel syntax to convey their respective purposes.

This excerpt of Swamplandia, a novel by Karen Russell focuses on Hilola Bigtree, a performer who races alligators as she is watched by an audience and her family. It is in the point of view of the performer’s daughter, who has seen her mother perform before and is newly captivated each time. Since it is in her point of view, she is able to create an atmosphere where she can elevate her mother as an exquisite being. She has an admiration for her mother, both as a performer and in general, that is extremely clear. The tense narrative in the excerpt contributes to Hilola’s portrayal as indestructible. Russell portrays the narrator’s exaltation of her mother through the combination of generated and real tension by use of dark imagery and the contrast between her and the audience through sublime diction.