Throughout the poem, the speaker discusses things about nature and death that gives off a depressing or gloomy mood to the poem. The speaker begins to set the mood and says, “Her early leaf’s a flower./But only so an hour (3-4). Frost’s poem is in no way a happy poem. It has a strong message but it leaves people feeling depressed and fearing death. Making the mood of the poem depressing, Frost is able to get his point across that eventually everything will die.
Robert Frost the most famous American poet of the last century was born in San Francisco in 1874. He is known for his deceptively simple style that artfully and effortlessly weaves together traditional metrical forms with colloquial American speech. He often used ordinary objects or events from his New England background as subjects for his work (Madden 269). In Frost’s poem Mending Wall, two farmers meet in spring to mend the wall that separates their property. As they walk the wall together “one on a side” repairing damage, the narrator muses about why they need a wall at all.
Natural imagery in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 is often used to represent truth, knowledge, or clarity of thought; in contrast, technology is shown as destructive and disengaging. Guy Montag begins as a fireman who enjoys burning books, blind to the flaws of his society. All of the people and events that occur in Montag's life and help him find his true path are strongly associated with nature. Technology often illustrates how characters like Mildred, Montag’s wife, and the Hound are empty and void of individuality. Whereas nature always seems to provide Montag with a certainty of his path, technology shields society from what is truly important and discourages free thinking.
Momaday and Brown used conflicting diction to create different views on similar landscapes. Momaday uses words and phrases such as "loneliness is an aspect of the land," "all things in the plain are isolate," "to look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion," "imagination comes to life," and "creation was begun." Momaday's use of words show the sacredness of the land. They also signify that the land is of important value to him on a spiritual level. On the other hand, Brown uses words and phrases such as "everything had turned bad," "gone," "replaced by an endless desolation," "roamed restlessly," and "return to their reservations to keep from starving."
“The Road” is the most readable of his works, and consistently brilliant in its imagining of the posthumous condition of nature and civilization — “the frailty of everything revealed at last. Old and troubling issues resolved into nothingness and night.” Money and gold mean nothing, nor do government, education, books, politics, history, friends, home. The pilgrimage is plotless but it races with tension, a sequence of enemy encounters or sightings, the perpetual danger from the killing weather, huddling under blanket and tarp, endlessly gathering firewood, confronting mysteries the dead world presents to a man seeking (and finding) water and food in the deserted houses, barns and boats that survived the firestorms. The father is ingenious in understanding how the natural and fabricated worlds function; and also lucky, as he modestly tells the
2.Loneliness is a part of life on the ranch "Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothin to look ahead to.
In the poem, Roethke establishes the connection between his self and the self’s labor of love. Although his art is natural, it is so difficult that it is painful. His secrets do not speak; they “cry aloud” (line 1) Saying that his “truths are all fore-known,” (line 7) Roethke acknowledges a personal clairvoyance, as though he has meditated on the self-many times. “This anguish self-revealed,” (line 8) the journey through his own house, the anguish self, has taken him inward to a place of universal mystery, a deep room of creativity. Roethke only approaches rage at the end of the poem, as if pure creativity is like fire life-enhancing or all consuming.
These novelists written about dystopian literature in which have underlying cautionary tones, warning society that if we continue living in the view of “each man for himself”, this will be the consequence. Each dystopia that these authors describe features
Every line that I read brought in waves of memories from the time I spent on the Appalachian Trail (AT) and backpacking trips out west. He starts the poem with the line, “The plains ignore us but the mountains listen”. Back packing through plains or flat grass lands is unlike anything you'll ever experience. To feel the vast openness of the earth is so incredibly energizing. But it is also extremely terrifying because if you did a complete 360 degree turn, you'd see nothing but maybe a mountain range a few dozen miles out and you feel so vulnerable out there.
He was self built from the ground up. Whitman was self educated, independent, intelligent, and unique in many ways. Although most of his life he was alone, he left a mark on American by his writs of poetry which were influenced by Emerson himself. He struggled through life, desperately looking for an alternative to becoming a farm boy. This in turn, led to a failure in teaching, personal failure of his newspaper, and going through a fictional writing phase.