This physical journey in the country acts as a temporary escape from reality. In this poem, Skrzynecki also reminds the responder of the physical journey as an escape from the tedium of ordinary existence but the natural beauty of the place does not separate the poet’s discontentment from the thoughts of his usual life. The poem has a relatively regular stanza structure- 7/8 line stanza but the last two are shorter. Free verse but some implied rhyme (shed, wind, hands) created through assonance and alliteration. The poem has rhythm of conversational speech and assonance and alliteration (e.g.
The author takes the time to describe something that is generally pleasant to his eyes, giving a sense of serenity in his tone. The reader can also feel a certain feeling of intimacy between Momaday and the land since he was a Native American: “For my people, the Kiowas, it is and old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain.” Everything Momaday sees in the land is positive. When the author uses the term “loneliness” it is only to emphasize the beauty of the land by saying it pushes your imagination
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.
Its descriptive language gave me the opportunity to see what is going on in the poem by Windell Berry. This poem is a good example of how sometimes we need a break from stress, and that we can find the relief of stress in natures beauty. Throughout the poem the author the uses poetic diction to describe the narrators senses and views on earths nature.Windell Berry knows how to create a detailed desciption to give the reader an idea of what objects look like in detail even though the reader is not able to see them in actuality. He really wanted to signify tranquility with the words that he chose. “The Peace of Wild Things” is a poem written by American poet Wendell Berry.
He spoke of his belief in the meadow and forest. Thoreau wrote about the air of the mountains feeding the spirit and arousing the senses. Mans thought will be clearer, intelligence will improve, and imaginations will soar (Thoreau 649). John Lame Deer believes that modern life has cut man off from feeling and spirituality. Experiencing the goodness of nature has become hard, because man has made itself a part of it (Lame Deer 687).
Chris believed that by going off on his own in the Alaskan wilderness he would change himself; finally know what his purpose was in life. From what Chris wrote in his journal, he implied that happiness comes from finding yourself, not by how many people you have a personal relationship with. Chris, who had renamed himself as “Alexander Super-tramp”, wrote in his journal “I didn’t really mind the absence of intimacy in my life, the lack of real human connection” (137). Writing this thought down in his journal, he had proven that human connection to him was nice, but not necessary. People need connections with others, but these connections are not always what brings them to their absolute highest level of happiness.
“Nature” is an accurate illustration of the views that the transcendentalists had on the natural world. By immersing himself in nature, he says that he is given a new sense of clarity, divinity, and enlightenment that cannot be gained anywhere but in nature. He was a strong believer that finding oneself and exploring one’s own soul is the ultimate pursuit of happiness, that the ultimate fulfillment in life would be self-discovery. Henry David Thoreau, Emerson’s short-time housemate, held very similar ideas, and found the works of his friend inspirational. Thoreau’s essay, “Civil Disobedience”, describes his idea of rebellion against laws he felt were unnecessary or unjust.
In the young and carefree, time has no affect on the mind of the child; however, at a certain age, one will realize that life is too short and that opportunities should be taken advantage of. A.E. Housman's "Loveliest of Trees” teaches this life-changing lesson. With rhetorical devices, word choices, and end rhymes embedded in this poem, Housman is able to successfully communicate in his poem that life is short and a person should live his/her life full of his/her favorite sights. In the first stanza, the speaker describes a beautiful and serene scene that he is enjoying while taking a walk through the forest.
“The Journey leads to greater understanding”. This thesis cleverly states the importance of a journey, it expresses that through experiences in journeys a greater understanding will be obtained. This thesis can be shown in the poems, Summer Rain by John Foulcher and The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, the classic American novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and the children’s picture book, Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. In Robert Frost’s poem, The Road Not Taken the individual in the poem is analysing two different paths that are both equally appealing, yet he can only choose one to travel. On this journey the individual develops a greater understanding of both of the roads he is choosing from which he starts to develop a clearer view of the two, instead of stereotyping them.
He distinguishes the inner man from the outer man. He says to be less in materialism and develop more in your spiritual needs. To meditate on it, than to be in constant labor to the individual humanity. Thoreau encourages his readers to embrace independence, self-reliance, and the simple life. He explains in Walden his experience in the woods, living with himself independently.