The author tries to put across his thoughts through using techniques such as juxtaposition, introspective perception, recursion, rhyme, assonance and alliteration. ‘Where I Come From by Elizabeth Brewster’ states the importance of having an identity and that your identity comes from your link to the natural world. The author splits the poem up into two stanzas to show the difference the speakers past and present. On the first stanza, the author focuses on getting the message “people are made of places”, a metaphor, across, leading the audience to catch the central meaning of the poem. Alternatively, ‘Summer Farm’ states that the natural world is fitted and altered to what emotional state one is in.
The authors Bradley John Monsma and William L. Fox share many intensions when it comes to human’s expression of nature. In each of their essays there is a main concept of human expansion into nature to seek a new perspective to gain appreciation for the beauty of our surroundings, and to comprehend whether we have a responsibility to step in, but both Monsma and Fox use different tools to provide the reader with this idea. While Monsma uses imagination to get a new perspective on nature Fox goes beyond that and uses a true physical connection with nature. In each essay gaining a new perspective on our surroundings helps us build a better relationship with the environment and each author portrays that using the same idea, but have a different way of proving their point. While in my own experience I found it extremely difficult to just use my imagination to try and find a new perspective on things.
This material choice and placement could be a implicit undertone of inner beauty. In the artwork titled You Hodges displays the importance that nature has on his creations. You looks like a cascading waterfall of flowers. The result is an artificial nature (silk flowers) vs. non artificial nature (cascading waterfall) 3d sculpture. This piece comes after a period of time where Hodges worked only in black and white.
Essay Question - 'Examine Heaneys poetic technique in two poems which deal with nature. You may look at imagery, language, tone, structure, verse form, rhythm and any other features you consider important.' Poems - 'Death Of A Naturalist' 'Blackberry Picking' The two poems that I will be examining in this essay are 'Death Of A Naturalist' and 'Blackberry Picking'. These poems are both written by Seamus Heaney. Both the poems also have several similarities regarding theme's, structures, language techniques and hidden ecological messages.
In his poem, “Fishing on the Susquehanna in July,” Billy Collins emphasizes the power of art and discusses the importance of experience. Collins uses powerful, lifelike imagery when describing a painting to blur the line between real and manufactured experiences. Collins uses powerful diction that references multiple senses to describe a painting, as though he has experienced the image in question, even though he has not. Starting with the title of the poem, “Fishing on the Susquehanna in July”(1), Collins gives the impression that he has, in fact, had this experience even though he never has been, implying in the title the ability to live through other people's paintings. He goes on to state that the nearest he ever comes to fishing
He says “there midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, and evening full of the linnet’s wings”. In the final stanza he uses alliteration again saying “lake water lapping with low sounds” At the end of the poem Yeats turns again to reality and it is reflected in the two final verses: “While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, I hear it in the deep heart's core.” The strong desire of the poet is again emphasized in the final verse, where he feels from the deep of his heart that he wants to be in a place like Innisfree. The second poem I am going to discuss is “The Daffodils”, by William Wordsworth. In stanza one Wordsworth uses a simile in the first line “I wandered lonely as a cloud”. “When all at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils”.
The unrestrained and expressive brushwork combined with the radiant colors conveyed the individuality, strong emotions and passions in the portrayals of nature and human subjects alike (MindEdge, Inc., 2014). Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog (Friedrich, 1818) highlighted the awe inspiring beauty and mystery of nature while implying the insignificance of man against nature. Acts of nature that could not be controlled were common landscape portrayals. J.M.W. Turner use of vivid colors through watercolor techniques with oil paint brought both mystery and emotion to his work as he was able to show nature as a beautiful and awesome force to be dealt with in his paintings Slave Ship (1840) and Dutch Boats in a Gale (1801).
What is poetry? One could argue that poetry can serve any number of purposes to a reader including a release of emotions, an exercise of the imagination, or pure and simple entertainment. But one of the most important functions of poetry, at least as viewed by many poets themselves, is that of a lesson on the natural world, life, or human nature, with the poet himself behaving as a teacher or prophet. Many of Robert Frost’s poems focus on the idea of man learning from nature through observations and experiences. His poem, “Mending Wall,” is an excellent example of such a poem.
In the poem The Green Knight is described to be green from head to toe “… all a glittering green,” (Gawain, 150). The color green on the knights clothes is symbolizes nature, his clothes are described as “It would be tedious to tell a tithe of the trifles embossed and embroidered such as birds and flies, in gay green gaud, with gold everywhere” (Gawain, 165-167). Unlike the rest of King Arthurs court the Green Knight represents nature while the rest of the court is more “civilized”. The color green for The Green Knight doesn’t only represent nature. It also represents immortality because nature itself represents endless life.
The poem has no fixed metrical pattern and consists of inconsistent usage of end-rhyme, followed by mélange of literary devices. Imtiaz has used free verse for greater emphasis and to provoke the reader to reflect upon the situation. The subject of the poem is water: how it is a necessity and the scarcity of water in the area the poem is set in. Through the use of language in the poem, the readers are able to see that Dharker, in this poem, considers water very important and precious, and that humans will suffer without it. This idea is highlighted in the first line of the poem: “the skin cracks like a pod”.