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Piero The Forest Fire

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The Forest Fire Piero Di Cosimo’s painting and John Stone’s poem The Forest Fire, tells a similar message concerning the human condition by using a thematic statement. The details in both the poem and the painting display a fearsome mood among the animals. These pieces of art both illustrate animals doing different tasks while a fire has erupted, in order to stay alive. John Stone’s poem and Piero Di Cosimo’s painting shows that when people come to a difficult situation they react differently. Firstly, Piero Di Cosimo’s painting The Forest Fire appropriately illustrates a dark and fearsome mood to contribute to the theme. Additionally, the lighting in the painting shows an average cloudy day while the center is very dark and black. The dark forest brings more attention to the animals inside of it. The animals in this forest appear to be heavily affected by the fire. The birds are scattered around and are returning to safety. There is one bull in the very front of the panting who seems …show more content…

This poem is very descriptive because it points out details that the reader may have not pointed out when glancing at the painting. For example, Stone writes “ a human snout float in the face of a swine. This human snout emphasizes how the animals symbolizes the human to connect to the theme. Additionally, a shift in this poem occurs in the second stanza when the author writes “ the stalked the dark and day of every beast except the lion” This shift in the poem shows that the lion is different form the other animals. Even more attention is brought to the lion when the author uses the smile “swaggering like a king”. This simile shows that the lion has some sort of high status. Th usage of words such as blaze, dark, venison, and fear gives the poem a fearsome and dark mood. Furthermore, this poem successfully shows how animals are reacting to this tragic

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