Question: How has your understanding of the concept 'The Wild' been enhanced through your study of your class texts’? The concept of nature is how nature has the ability to be seen as a source of inspiration, reflection and renewal. The concept is profoundly displayed through the persuasive literature of poems and visual emotive effects of films. Ultimately the texts have reshaped, translated and revolutionised the concept of nature. Nature through diverse texts is deeply analysed and the concept is challenged and explored making personal, social and political comments on nature through strong, persuasive techniques and understandings to shape the reader’s view.
Leslie Maghett ENG 1101 Synthesis 2 Henry David Thoreau, a philosopher was drawn to the doctrine of transcendentalism. In his essay “From Walking,” he wrote about the oneness of individual spirit along with man’s obligation to pursue worldwide truth. Thoreau presents a step by step meaning of the effectiveness of the wilderness and nature. John Lame Deer, a medicine man, was in agreement with Throeau. In “Talking to the Owls and Butterflies,” Lame Deer chronicles his attitude towards the “white world’s,” treatment of animals and nature.
Mary Jane Butac Ms. Sandra Carvalho English 1A 8 October 2014 Rhetorical Analysis: Momaday's and Brown's Perspective on Similar Lands Native American writers N. Scott Momaday's and Dee Brown, in their descriptive passages"of similar landscapes, paint two conflicting portraits of a similar landscape. Momaday's purpose is to portray the beauty behind his sacred ancestral home for what it is, while Brown's purpose is to portray a ruined land that is no longer what he loved. Momaday invites his readers to admire his homeland, while Brown drags the readers into an atmosphere that's unpleasant. The two writer's vastly different perspectives of similar landscapes are revealed through their use of contrasting diction and imagery. Momaday and Brown used conflicting diction to create different views on similar landscapes.
A drive in the country A drive in the country is poem written by Peter Skrzynecki. This poem relates to inner journey but significantly relates to physical journey as it is a poem that involves different types of obstacles and movement to new places. The poet has used descriptive language, visual imagery and many more techniques to make his poem more effective. This poem is about the poet’s experiences and they affected him. The poet is suggesting that the natural world has so much more to offer than the one he is currently enduring.
In contrast, Heaney’s poem is very personal and shows the effects that nature has on him, rather than to everyone. Clarke presents a certain ominous feeling in her poem. This is evident in the quote “small birds fell: song thrushes…smudged signatures on light”. The death of the birds symbolises is how Clarke exposes the extent of the damage caused by the Chernobyl disaster. In particular, the use of the word “small” by Clarke is very effectively used.
Bri’Onna Frank AP Literature 5th period 11/15/11 Poem Analysis The poem “Lost Brother” by Stanley Moss is about the juxtaposition of the human race and nature, and reveals that even with varied traits and genes/cells, we are all bonded with life. The speaker in the poem is an individual who identifies them self with nature such as an environmentalist. An individual who looks to protect the land, even after “four thousand eight hundred sixty- two years,” though once destroyed they are emotionally “pained.” The diction provided implores the identity of the speaker being contrasted with that of trees, such as “our mother”, implicating they are of the same being. The speaker is addressing other environmentalist with the purpose of imploring them to enjoy the nature around them before the land and they too are “cut down” by a “bag of wind”. This implicates a theme of life, in the sense of living life to the fullest before it is too late.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (1992) express their growing concerns of the destructive consequences of alienation and the suffering that results of this. Influenced by the rapid growth of technology and environmental concerns of their composing times, they illustrate their concerns from different perspectives. Both texts explore the suffering of the environment when one isolates themselves or neglects the natural world. Shelley who was heavily influenced by the principles of Romanticism and was personally exposed to writers and poets who believed in the sublime and rejuvenating power of nature, focuses on the suffering that can occur when one isolates themself from the natural world. It is when Victor
Hector Rosario Jr Week 1 Geography Homework 1. How do we use direction, distance, and location to help us better understand the great variety of physical and human environmental conditions present on Earth’s surface? Geography is about the earth we inhabit and what we do with it, which involves a distinctive approach to acquiring knowledge and understanding. Geography examines the consequences of those decisions. It allows us to understand how human society has arranged itself over the earth’s surface.
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an inspiration, Everything he wrote together in perfect harmony. The literature he wrote included Nature in 1836, The American Earsley 4 Scholar in 1837, The OverSoul in 1841, SelfReliance in 1841, The Poet in 1843, and The Transcendentalism in 1842. Most of his works was about human imperfections. What needed to be changed in our society. " These are the voices that we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.
A Hearts Journey “From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness, The soullessness of men” is a poem written by M. Frida Huntley that when read winded and fueled my passion to peruse a life where I would be able to preserve nature and the elements that encompass it. I will never claim to be a “hippie,” I do not participate in connotations associated with its stereotype. However, I enjoy partaking in projects and research in conservation available with-in Alberta and Western British Columbia. I have always had an interest of the natural world; my interest sparked starting when I was a young child. Growing up my family relocated to the city where my interest in the natural world diminished and it was not until a visit back to my hometown that my vision for my future became clear.