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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

The theme of the poem is loss. The seasons changing and turning impure are signs of that. Personification is used to express those words better in the poem. Personification is used on the word nature to help describe

This poem is full of beautiful energy of the natural world; from leaves and flowers to sunrises and sunsets, your head is full of golden images from beginning to end. Because he refers to nature as a her, you have an image of mother nature throughout the poem.

Two themes the poem has is death and time. The poem displays the theme of time, because it starts out telling the story of a man who is from, and raises his children in, a noble and rich family. As his children get older, 2 of them died, and the others, to quote the poem “all were gone, or broken-winged or devoured by life”. He had lost, essentially all of his children, and as we find out his wife. The poem shows how he went from a great man with a happy family, to a lost man who is all alone. The next theme the poem shows is death. Death is all throughout the poem. It starts with a man living a good life, but as it goes on his first child leaves, his next 2 children die, and the next 3 become incredibly unsocial and that’s not even it! Near the end his wife, the mother of all 6 children, dies. “I sat under my cedar tree, till ninety years were tolled.” The poem ends with the man dying, after everything he had lost; he died in his favorite place to be, under his cedar tree.

n the introduction of the poem the writer mentions that the poem is meant to relate to the speakers experience with encountering nature. With much thought into this idea, could you not say that you could relate this poem to the experience of the way society is changing today. In our lives we get use to certain people that we could never "unnoticed" them, but there are a couple of others that we may not even bother with or notice they are there. In the first stanza they question the appearance of the fellow and in reality that may be them questioning the appearance of some people in their lives.

The poem is is clearly meant to be depressingly pessimistic; it tells of mankind being eradicated by war and how the natural world would continue without pause. Instead I find it rather comforting. I guess I enjoy the thought that even with all the horrible acts humans commit, even if we destroy ourselves entirely, the world will not cease to exist. Our death will not be the end of all things. If there is one thing to be learned from evolutionary and biological history, it’s that life always finds a way. Despite how fragile and brief it may seem, life will continue, despite all odds. It’s a deeply terrifying thought, for when everything is taken into account, does mankind really matter?

A dark light is shed on nature, with the use of words such as “soiled” to depict the clouds in the sky (3). Normally, one would appreciate nature for its beauty and ability to create peace in its observers, but clearly the speaker feels resentment and disgust towards the environment. What happened to create this negative feeling towards a seemingly harmless and normally appreciated thing? The wind is described like a bird, flying and “beat(ing) around in its cage of trees,” wanting to be set free (2). The personification of the wind gives the normally less powerful force more shape and life, as though it is capable of great destruction. Similarly, the “starlings peck at the ice,” trying to break through (3). There is a theme of breaking free from confinement in these two lines, which is an interesting concept when the reader is introduced to the wife in the second stanza. She “stays home and stares from the window” at the outside world, which is clearly a depressing scene due to the harshness of the winter

because the poem is talking about nature but its really nothing about nature, there's some character inside of it, nature, eden and dawn. nature is a character in the poem that is hiding the real meaning of the poem.

Nature represents the world in this poem, saying that the worlds youth is hard to hold on to in the first line, " Natures first green is gold." Dawn going down to day is an example of the world losing its youth, its gold. Eden, like the garden of Eden in the Bible, which is associated with nature, sinking to grief represents the world ending and everything gold going away.

To start off the analysis, the setting of the entire poem is significant. Though the poem takes place in a house, the atmosphere the house is set in is also important. The month is September which is a month of fall which can be seen as a symbol for decline. It definitely insinuates that the poem is leading towards death. Line 1 has “September rain falls on the house” which gives the feeling of a dark and cold night with a storm on top of that. To further develop that, Bishop gives us the failing light in line 2 to also give us an idea of the grandmother’s struggle. Bishop uses the cyclical theme of changing seasons to show the unending nature of what is transpiring within the

Examples of this negative outlook can be found within the first line of the second stanza, “Time drives flocks from fields to fold,” this shows the poems negative attitude towards nature. Other examples can be found such as in the first line of the third stanza, “The flowers do fade,” this is saying that the flowers and all pretty things of nature will decay and die as time passes. The evident negative attitude towards nature can also be found the the third and final poem.

The poem follows the structure of a day— 'the sun does arise' in the commencement of the first verse, and 'the sun does descend' in the middle of the third stanza, and can be read as a metaphor for human life. The poem is the contrast of inculpability and experience, but withal the contrast between perception of joys and sorrows. What is transpiring on the Green will transpire again, appeared by the 'old society' who watch the kids and think back about their own youth on the Green. The whole poem is indited in six sentences with much

Throughout numerous works by Sylvia Plath, she is characteristically known for emphasizing conflict, whether it be within herself or in the world around her. This poem dramatizes the conflict between the craving a sense of belonging and feeling useless. To create this effect, the speaker refers eloquently to the notion that she feels bland and unnoticed in comparison to nature. She wishes to possess the same striking beauty that the flowers have in their beds, or the same sense of direction that the trees have within their secured roots. The speaker then attempts to relate herself to her environment but fails, knowing that she will continue to be overlooked even though she and the sky "are in open conversation" (l 18). Finally, after realizing that nature cannot be paralleled when compared, especially to her, she concludes that she is more useful when she is lying horizontally without a purpose, hence the first line. In this way, the speaker seems to imply that she would be more valuable if she was dead and used as fertilizer for those same flowers and trees.

The poem divides into two parts. The first two stanzas dealing with nature and the last two concentrate on the poet who commences his process of self-reflection. The poem here plots a movement away from the real to the theoretical. In the third stanza the mention of the word ‘fear’ and the poet’s portrayal of himself as a ‘pile of selves’ add on to a more thoughtful mood. The poem is ended in such a way causing us to feel as though there is more to be said which disturbs us.

In his mind they are not something ordinary which we can simply bypass, but that they have almost the power to heal one’s troubled life. The beauty and the passion evoked from Nature can be the reason to improve people’s life for better. And maybe could serve as a message that there is a special place out there for everyone to retreat and cure all kinds of wounds. Nature itself is a spring, an embodiment of love, peace, tranquility that always awaits. Many had forgotten about its existence but at the same time as if unaware that they need it badly. And if Nature can make people free and happy then the world they perceive around them shall become with the same significance. And as a result of this they shall try to be better people and try to apply a bit more kindness in their everyday lives. The impression that Nature left in him is great and the images in his mind so perfect that during his absence they haunted him like a passion, and nevertheless he was away all that time they helped him to overcome his troubles. He wants to tell us that it is we who need the support and relief not her. His memories of spiritual pleasure and joy were so strong that they lasted all that time, so that he may set foot on his favorite pace once again and embrace it. While reading people may have the strange feeling that the whole poem is a kind e personal invitation to each one, to go and see for themselves if they do not believe at