Personification And Symbolism In The Surfer, By Judith Wright

This is very good descriptive writing and I can really tell what the writer means. The first sentence he says “t mounts at sea, a concave wall” I know exactly what this means. This means when you are kinda feeling the pull of the wave it gets bigger and bigger once you're in the right spot and it becomes like a wall. This way when it comes crashing down a little you can get current and push to ride the wave. After this is it says “ribbed with shine” I don’t exactly know what this means but i kinda have an idea. Once you get up and is riding the wave you kinda have this feeling inside of joy or fun. When the

Imagery is used to portray the themes of For the fire by John Foulcher and The surfer by Judith Wright by a variation of literary techniques and contrasting imagery types such as natural, animal and sensory.

values, assumptions and voice of the poem and of Australia at that time, one that shows courage and

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth, a poem that discloses the relationship between nature and human beings: how nature can affect one’s emotion and behavior with its motion and sound. The words the author adopted in this poem are interconnected and related to each other. They are simple yet profound, letting us understand how much William Wordsworth related his works to nature and the universe. It also explained to us why William Wordsworth is one of the greatest and the most influential English romantic poets in history. As Robert DiYanni says in his book, “with much of Wordsworth’s poetry, this lyric reflects his deep love of nature, his vision of a unified

Disgusted, the speaker sees how society has morally degraded itself in exchange for wealth and greed. The frustrated tone of the poem becomes further elevated when the speaker exclaims, "We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!" (4). Blinded by the daily drudgeries of life, people have become impervious to nature, despite some of the grand displays that one can behold. The speaker describes beautiful images of nature such as the sea, howling winds, and flowers that no longer create an emotional response in people. Since the world has become so out of touch with nature, mankind is no longer able to appreciate the drama that takes place between the wind and the moon. Additionally, the speaker claims that society has become so indifferent to nature that, "Little we see in Nature that is ours;" (3).

Since Gretchen never had the opportunity to go into the ocean alone, she was on cloud nine when she realized how breathtaking the waves could be. For example, towards the middle of the poem, Gretchen Matis wrote, “I let them lift me off the sand and put me in a new place.” Moreover, these words strongly emphasize that she feels peaceful while body surfing in the waves of the ocean. Therefore, because the author explained how it felt to float on the surface of the ocean, it helped readers understand why it was so amazing for her to be body

There is something so spiritual about surfing. I have never surfed a day in my life but every time I watch others surf I feel this yearning to pick up a board and join them. It looks like one of the most dangerous but most fulfilling activities at the same time. I once read somewhere that humans are attracted to water and enjoy being in water because 70% of our body is made up of water and at molecular level, we crave water. When I watch surfers, I feel that it’s true and that I’m being pulled into the waters from deep within myself. It’s no surprise the sound of waves calms most people and helps them to relax. We associate the sounds of the ocean with calmness so surfers are just people in search of the ultimate mediation. Don’t get me wrong, surfing is not as simple as picking up a board and going into the ocean. It takes a lot of hard work to be able to surf and the bigger the waves, the harder it is to surf. Surfers have to have great upper body strength, an

Unlike society, Wordsworth does not see nature as a commodity. The verse "Little we see in Nature that is ours" (3), shows that coexisting is the relationship envisioned. This relationship appears to be at the mercy of mankind because of the vulnerable way nature is described. The verse "This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon" (5), gives the vision of a woman exposed to the heavens. In addition, the phrase "sleeping flowers"(7) might also describe how nature is being overrun unknowingly.

The ocean and beach are beautiful while the tide rises and falls, and “The little waves, with their soft, white hands” (Longfellow) wipe away the footsteps from the traveler. The scene itself is grand, however, what the ocean represents could be viewed as oblique. The ocean, and its waves, are a symbol for the never-ending cycle of nature, life, and time. The waves, “[effacing] the footprints in the sands” (Longfellow), illustrates how life always continues and how little an individual influences nature as a whole. Despite the ending of the traveler’s life and his little influence on the world during his journey, Longfellow demonstrates the peacefulness and constructiveness of nature.

If you knew the entirety of all the things in the universe that could harm you would you still live every day like you do now? Would you still run to the beach to survive or keep flying high in the sky, being a master of the wind? Or would you climb to the top of a waterfall, your mind overcome by all your anguished thoughts and fears that you can no longer bare to live anymore? Throughout the selected poems Mark O’Connor expresses concepts of life and death with a subliminal idea that ‘ignorance is bliss’ but also challenging us on how we live. He does this by describing the journey of hatching turtles and the flying of terns and how they live their life without knowing all the dangers that could harm them. To paint such a picture he creates powerful imagery through his diverse choice of sounds, verbs and metaphors to express his ideas.

The two poems “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and “Nutting” by William Wordsworth, view nature as a sole importance of life. Throughout both poems, the speaker suggests to the reader the importance of nature. In different ways, each poem views the beauty and innocence of nature without human interaction and the lack of aesthetic pleasantry with human interaction. In turn, the subliminal message to the readers is warning them not to disturb nature when it is in its purest form. Coleridge and Wordsworth both warn the reader about disturbing the beauty of nature; Coleridge shows this through symbolism of animals and personification of nature, while Wordsworth uses imagery of nature before and after human interference.

The poem, “Apostrophe to the Ocean” written by George Gordon Byron expresses his love for the ocean and nature through numerous different writing styles and techniques. The poem is dedicated to the deep, powerful, and ferocious ocean, the main subject of this poem is humanity and civilization versus nature and the universe. Byron’s view of humans versus nature is revealed through his belief that the power of nature is inseparable and that it is greater than any human or civilization. Bryon depicts his love for the ocean through, literary techniques, his thoughts about industrialization and romantic writing styles.

In the third stanza, Arnold uses imagery and metaphors to depict the setting, which further set the mood of the poem. The first three lines portray and insinuate prospects of a visual image. The last five lines appeal to the auditory sense in the form of despair. In the first part of the stanza, Arnold characterizes the sea as divine.

Wordsworth uses many symbols to better argue his point that nature is not appreciated the way it used to be. “We have given our hearts away” (4). Our hearts symbolize the respect we once showed toward nature. Wordsworth uses a paradox by stating that this is “a sordid boon!” (4) or a foul gift. The elements Words worth talks about, the sea and wind, symbolize the power and beauty that nature has. It also symbolizes the longing for a restored connection between nature and man which is best shown by the sea and wind trying to attract the attention of man by, “baring her bosom” (5) and “howling at all hours” (6). The metaphor used to compare people to a musical

The man describes an identical situation at the end of the poem, saying, “Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season” (76). The concept of nature as a source of order is based on its function as a cycle. The old man waits for the cycle to deliver him from his spiritually dry state to a place of fulfillment. But nature brings no change to the man and leaves him in the same arid condition in which he began. The failure of nature to provide a cycle is supported by the natural, stationary images in the poem, such as, “Rocks, moss, stonecrop, iron, merds” (12), and the “Gull against the wind, in the windy straits” (70), which shows nature forcefully impeding the progress of the bird, just as its lack of cycle reinforces the stagnation of the old man’s mind, body, and spirit.