Okefenokee Swamp Passage 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.”

One thing the author does is that he uses descriptive language to add an eerie feeling the main character Sam gets as he goes into the swamp,“...a thin layer of fog lay over the swollen bayou... I cranked the motor and sputtered out into the fog,” (p. 84). Writing about the fog layered

Winton, has described the characters in this short story to be different, friendly and angry. ‘Forensic team in waders carry bones from the edge of the lake’ (p.g 37) and ‘Through the open window I smelt wild lupins and estuary mud’ (p.g 37). In the first pages of this chapter I, was a young boy who played with the Box kids across the street and they were Catholics who all smelled the same. The Joneses, were Aboriginals who didn’t need to keep up with complicated situations, but were always angry, dark and loud. This chapter involves information about a character who was a child, who passed a remote lagoon and swampland everyday on his way to school, and eventually gained the courage to explore within the depth of the location. At attempting to unlock this secret passage, it included many secrets and mysteries that needed to be discovered. By reading ‘Aquifer’, this brought the characters to a place that they felt immediately in connection with, this included memories that were buried in their past that they have shaped and now believe that they are today. Winton’s exploration of the way that the past ‘Sits hand in Glove’ (p.g 38) with the present drew many feelings and emotions into the description of the

Over a time period of many years, the Florida Everglades have been harmed.This is due not only to the fact that the Everglades were almost entirely drained, but also the fact that extremely hazardous chemicals are being put into the Everglades. However many organizations are helping the Everglades get their water quality and pollution under control.

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.

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

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.

The first half of Life on the Mississippi was ideally written and reading the extremely detailed and captivating account of Twain's apprenticeship was quite enjoyable. However, the second part of the book was not as fascinating. The short stories were frequently only two pages long and were not very well connected to be a clear read. Though a few of the characters Twain met on his journey were quite interesting, the majority of them merely served as an example of a certain characteristic which he wished to further discuss. This may be due to the fact that Twain was much older by the time he made the trip in the second half of the book, and he had grown aware of the various faults of humanity and thus wrote more analytically and critically than he did in the first half to reflect his change in character and the change of the times he lived in.

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.

The speaker marks the poem with “here” to illustrate her spatial position to the swamp. She overlooks the vast and “endless” space that represents an ambiguously arduous distance she is surrounded by has yet to confront the swamp. As she looks outwards to the swamp, alliterative plosives such as “branching,” “burred,” “bogs,” paint the thick texture of the mud and the physical characteristics of her vulgar environment. Sharp “b” sounds

The Everglades is a subtropical wilderness with hardwood hammocks, mangrove forests, along with grass marshes. The Florida Everglades used to be a home for many endangered species, that was until the sudden changes in the environment. The Everglades are facing water-related issues, such as its problems with the water supply. There are issues facing recent attempts to improve the water supply, and some history on the Everglades.

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.

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.

Comparison of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain