Momaday and Brown have different purposes toward their respective landscapes as seen in the passages. Momaday’s purpose holds to view culture history of the Kiowa Indians and how the land itself holds beauty, in a most appealing positive attitude, which also reflects his background; “for my people.” Brown’s purpose, seen in the passage holds an opposite view, where it reflects a very dull aspect towards the Plains in a demoralized negative way. Momaday’s fanciful diction keeps his praise for Rainy Mountain alive with imagination choosing words such as “brittle” and “writhe,” giving a sensory image of how he feels and sees devotion of pride for the land. Momaday uses sources from his culture and the Kiowa to show a sense of clear imagination of the kind of heritage the land holds. He describes Rainy Mountain using his sensory imagination of how he feels and sees the landscape; colors in specific, making the audience have an idea of how it’s like when he mentions, “The grass turns brittle and brown… cracks beneath your feet.” He compares the many flashy insects as “yellow grasshoppers … everywhere… popping up like corn to sting the flesh…,” seeing the land with praise as to his culture of the Kiowas being reverent.
The rare beauty of the usually dead landscape reflects the passion in the man’s heart; his burning emotion survives the coldest of surroundings. In Ethan Frome, author Edith Wharton reflects both continuous hardship and brief joy with changes in the landscape that affect Frome’s outlook. Through this, Wharton reveals that victims of pain and dejection may endure further adversity if they can hold onto their hope. Edith Wharton parallels Frome’s enduring love for Mattie Silver with small glimpses of nature’s survival within the
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.
In Stay Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, an essay that serves to respond to an essay by Salman Rushdie, Scott Russell Sanders used parallelism and metaphors to emphasize his beliefs that migration causes “disastrous consequences for the earth and for ourselves.” Sanders believes that “by settling in, we have a chance of making a durable home for ourselves, our fellow creatures, and our descendants.” The use of parallelism throughout Sanders’ essay was to emphasize his counter argument made by Rushdie. Rushdie articulates “that uprootings brings tolerance, while rootedness breeds intolerance; that imaginary homelands are preferable to geographical ones; that to be modern, enlightened, fully of our time is to be displaced,” showing that migration is good,in Rushdie’s perspective. Although we don’t know Sanders’ background, it is easy to speculate Rushdie’s perspective since he is a writer who migrated from India to England. If Rushdie believed that he disliked migration and had the same beliefs as Sanders, he would be contradicting his own actions. Sanders believes Rushdie’s beliefs are an “orthodoxy that... [Sanders]... wish[es] to encounter,” stating his belief that migration only harms the environment, not only to the creatures around us, but to ourselves as well.
The details in the diction used are supposed to help the reader imagine exactly what is being seen through the writer’s eyes or mind. The uses of bigger detail in Momaday’s passage give the audience that visual image that helps create of sense of knowing. The audience is able to see what a beautiful land the plains are and just how it changes into even more beautifulness. It is just as simple to imagine the land of Brown’s passage. His lack of detail gave cause for the readers to imagine a land of nothingness and a land that isn’t worth looking at.
In Joe Wilson’s Courtship, Lawson conveys Joe’s strong emotions by giving his heart a human characteristic. “And, my heart gave a jump.” The way that Lawson portrays his characters emotion is very visually helpful through the use of personification, allowing the audience to further understand and reinforce the image from the emotion that the composer creates. In the Drover’s Wife, Lawson uses personification to reflect the landscape; to reinforce the tone and dry typical Australian outback. “She-oaks ‘sighing’ on the creek bed”. This visual image also provides a little bit of relief to the ear from the dry tone in the eye in the view.
Country in the tile connotes the serenity and peaceful beauty found in it that soothes the viewer. In this poem, the physical journey – a drive in the country, is a catalyst for reflection first on the calmness and sureness of the natural world, and then, dramatically, on death and hopelessness. The poem probably reflects Skrzynecki’s experience of living and working in northern NSW and he appears to be unhappy in this environment. The poet takes a trip to the country and this trip denotes a physical journey as an escape from the reality of life. This physical journey in the country acts as a temporary escape from reality.
Roethke's decision to use words such as “waltzing” (line 4) and “romped” (line 5) in his poem bring about a certain energy that Hayden's poem does not. His tone is a light one, a happy one where there seems to be joy in the home and two family members that care deeply for each other and enjoy showing that appreciation outwardly. In Hayden's poem there is a darkness to the home which surfaces with descriptions such as “blueblack cold” (line 2) and describing the house so cold its “splintering, breaking” (line 6). Hayden's dark tone is brought about through the words he uses and as it echos throughout the poem the relationship between the father and his son is described. The father has already been defined as a working class man as his hands are “cracked... from labor in the weekday” (line 3) and now on this early Sunday morning he awakes to “[drive] out the cold” (line 11).
The descriptive language used in the second stanza assumes a certain brilliance when the poem reflects a positive tone when he says “the wide wide heavens!” He uses a sense of heightened colour when describing the nature surrounding him, e.g. “purple heath flowers!” Coleridge realises toward the end of the imaginative journey that nature is all around us for those who have the desire, passion and determination to search for it. Conversational tone is also conveyed in ‘Frost at Midnight’. Frost at Midnight is in an secluded cottage during the stillness of night. “The frost performs its secret ministry” at the start of the first stanza implies personification used to establish the stunning silence of nature and the frost falling outside.
The museum therefore, would have to represent the land that the natives were relocated from, and the fact that settlers did not believe the natives to have any claim to the land that they lived on. The exhibit that the patrons were being disturbed from enjoying was a show on contemporary art from the Atlantic Provinces. The Atlantic art is used to make reference to the actual settlers which have come from the east, and how much the patrons prefer this sort of art to the totem poles, which they find