Summer In Yakima Valley Analysis

Nature is a part of everyone, it is something that each person grows up learning to appreciate and treat with respect. Mary Oliver shows this innate love for the natural world around her through her poetry and this is evident in her poem “Black Walnut Tree”. Not only does Oliver demonstrate and understanding of the family’s admirable relationship for the tree, she manages to express their conflicted emotions with various poetic techniques.

In this passage, Prose gives the reader his feelings and attitude towards nature. Giving off the impression that she has respect and dedication for it. She releases a positive message towards the subject and believes that it is a necessity for life. Throughout this passage the author uses effective figurative language and imagery. Nature can only be seen and felt by certain people. And when they are able to see nature it is a blissful and tranquil image. The wilderness has much more to offer than is the streets.

Hirshfield writes this poem in second person to give life to the poem so that the poem speaks to the reader. The poem starts by accusing the reader of letting the redwood grow near the house. “It is foolish” (line 1) lets the reader know that nature should not be growing this close to your home. Hirshfield takes the liberty to talk straight to the reader through the speaker in telling them that it is nonsense to let nature be so close to a material object such as a house. The reader can visually see a “young redwood// grow next to a house” (line 2, 3). The tree starts to symbolize the beauty of nature growing against the materialistic world.

The appreciation of nature is illustrated through imagery ‘and now the country bursts open on the sea-across a calico beach unfurling’. The use of personification in the phrase ‘and the water sways’ is symbolic for life and nature, giving that water has human qualities. In contrast, ‘silver basin’ is a representation of a material creation and blends in with natural world. The poem is dominated by light and pure images of ‘sunlight rotating’ which emphasizes the emotional concept of this journey. The use of first person ‘I see from where I’m bent one of those bright crockery days that belong to so much I remember’ shapes the diverse range of imagery and mood within the poem. The poet appears to be emotional about his past considering his thoughts are stimulated by different landscapes through physical journey.

In the poem there is also an idea of man verses nature, this relates to the survival of the fittest. John Foulcher shows this through the use of first person point of view. For example in the second stanza “Then above me the sound drops” this again possesses sensory imagery creating a deeper human aura throughout the poem. Foulcher further uses a human aura to build a sense of natural imagery for example in the last stanza : “I pick up these twigs and leave them” adding closure

Imagery was also used in the poem.  I found that the yellow in the first line represented that the future the writer was facing was bright and warm regardless of his choice.  The undergrowth was, as undergrowth in any forest, damp and dank smelling, but not necessarily unpleasant, just something that the writer would have to face.  The image of traveling through a forest also brings to mind thoughts of birds in flight, chirping and singing.  Squirrels dashing through trees, rustling leaves and dropping the occasional acorn or nut also create an image of sight and sound.  The sun reflecting through the trees, casting shadows and creating pockets of warm and cool air and the occasional breeze stirring through the trees are also brought to mind by this poem.  The end of the poem brings to me

Many people believe that this mimics Whitman's life. Living in a life of social separation much of the time, he still managed to succeed not only with his writing, but also in life itself. However, in line five Whitman goes on to say that he wonders how the tree could grow such joyous leaves while being alone. He himself says that he could not survive if put in the same situation. Whitman did however lead a joyous and happy life in many peoples opinion, even though he did not enjoy the social life many other had during his lifetime. His own opinion of himself not being lonely may be frayed in order to spare the image he proposes to the public in his writings. The next few lines are interesting because of the way they could possible spell out Whitman's life. In the poem, he breaks of a twig, wraps some moss around it, and takes it to he room and places it in plain view. This may parallel his life by way of his memory. The twig may represent pieces of his memory that were enjoyable to him. He then takes the twig and places it in his room signifying that he wants to be able to constantly see those fond memories. Again Whitman replies by saying he did not do this to remind him of his friends, but in reality he may have just said this to help keep a good report with his readers about his lifestyle.

The poem begins with the poet noticing the beauty around her, the fall colors as the sun sets “Their leaves and fruits seemed painted, but was true, / Of green, of red, of yellow, mixed hue;” (5-6). The poet immediately relates the effects of nature’s beauty to her own spiritual beliefs. She wonders that if nature here on Earth is so magnificent, then Heaven must be more wonderful than ever imagined. She then views a stately oak tree and

These are two poems about nature. Now they are talking about the same thing. Well, they say it differently, you see the first one is talking about how the sun is rising and it shines on every leaf and they use a simile which is just perfect. Then on the second one, then they use many, many metaphors which are ok, but they rhyme a little which is better for the reader and it is longer and so they make it more interesting. They are very interesting, and they make you want to just get up and go outside. So you can feel what they are talking about so should right now just get off the couch and go outside. Run around make some camping plans so you can go into the forest and then see all the beauty of the world. Or you could go camping in the wrong spot where there was a forest fire and so then you will see all the destruction and you will try to do something about it. So then will decide that you need to do something about it so join a group that goes around and helps put up signs that say. Fire Resrictions No Campfires No Barbeques Nothing that are a Fire Hazard But then people will get very mad and so then you will need to go and talk to your group and you will go and make new signs that

In you discussion you not only discussed what the author meant to show in his poem but gave your own example of thoughts being developed after reading. Often times in this society it’s easy to forget about nature and just think about urbanization. Everyday you can see trees being cut down and the beginning of construction sites. We don’t appreciate nature as much as we should since it’s all around us. Nature can make us feel a certain type of happiness that can’t be found as you said new shopping centers being constructed. Besides just explaining the poem I like how you gave examples of your life that go along with explaining the poem. For example, the part where you mentioned about laying down in the trampoline to admire the night sky shows

In both of the poems the author can appreciate nature by talking about how beautiful it is. Light like a green latticework of branches. (lines 3, 4, and 5)The quote talks about how beautiful the light shining on the branches is.It talks about the beauties of nature.I like the poems because of how they express the life of nature.Sleeping in the forest is a lyric poem that expresses personal emotions about the beauty of nature.Ode to enchanted light is a traditional poem that is a set of guidelines of characteristics. Ode to enchanted light and sleeping in the forest and two of the most popular poems in world

The land in this poem is very important to the development of the theme. So the Pauline Johnson spends most of the describing it. Pauline uses a unique structure similar to slow close up to emphasize all the features of the land and give them depth and color. In the first stanza she starts of with a shot of the skyline. Witch at first only gives an basic idea of the landscape, we know not of the bleaching skeletons of the never coming herd of buffalo. In the second stanza she zooms in add a whole new layer of nuanced description breathing life into anything that occupies the land. "Etched where the cloudland touch and die" In the

Like “The Road Not Taken”, in “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, the speaker has to make a big decision in his life. He has to choose between isolation and social obligation. At first glance, this poem might denote stopping in the woods to escape the hustle and bustle of city life. Different symbols in this poem though reveal that stop in the poem could be referring to death. In this phrase “Between the woods and frozen lake”, the wood becomes a symbol of life where frozen lake signifies death. When the speaker reaches the woods, he finds a world offering perfect, quiet and solitude, existing side by side with the realization that there is also another world, a world of people and social obligation. Both

The poem A Forest Hymn talk of the origin of all the nature that surrounds humanity and the activities of these naturally found objects. It gives an indication that the source of all the nature that we see is God and He is the one who controls their actions in all aspects and as to that, the poet implores the entire humanity to humble itself before the creator and controller of nature and worship him, not necessarily in houses or in crowds as both of these are weak and cannot stand before the might of the creator, but in natural settings.

The Wryd Sisters was an all girl folk band from Winnipeg, Manitoba. They wrote and sang songs about political issues. In the song “Farewell to the Clayoquot Sound” the Wyrd sisters express their love for the Red Cedar trees. In the 1980’s the NDP political group tried to have the trees cut down for resources. The Wyrd Sisters disagreed and wrote the song. By writing this song, they took the political issue and sang about the trees. The reader can see the environment in the mode theme and literary devices. The mode of the story is philosophic. It is philosophic because the Wyrd Sisters are asking “What of the spirits that live in the trees?” (Line 17). They also ask questions pertaining to the Red Cedar trees and the people who want to cut them down. The theme of the Clayoquot Sound is to save the trees. The theme is directly related to saving the Cedar Trees.