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.
In both poems ‘Where I Come From by Elizabeth Brewster’ and ‘Summer Farm by Norman MacCaig’, the author makes a dominant connection between the natural world and mankind by addressing the importance of digging down to your roots, finding your own identity through it and also focusing on how nature alters to fit with your emotional state. In ‘Where I Come From by Elizabeth Brewster’, it concentrates on idea that wherever you come from, you carry a sense of that place in your mind. By trying to convey this message and create the effect of a nostalgic poem, the author had used many techniques such as sibilance, similes, alliteration and metaphors. On the other hand, in ‘Summer Farm by Norman MacCaig’, the author’s central idea is to get across the message that the natural world is created according to the emotions of man. The author tries to put across his thoughts through using techniques such as juxtaposition, introspective perception, recursion, rhyme, assonance and alliteration.
Owen used his poems to deliver the truth about war and change the views of society at that time. He used graphic and gruesome imagery about the horrors of war in order to illuminate his feelings. The horrors of war are most vividly and strikingly captured in the poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est.’ Owen attacks the reader with a barrage of detailed, gruesome, descriptions of life at war. He uses this technique of imagery to force the reader to visualize the truth about war. Owen also seeks to expose the betrayal of the authorities throughout poems such as ‘Disabled’ and ‘The parable of the old man and the young.’ He expresses how they acted with a disregard for the lives of their countries young men.
In Janet Rice’s letter to the minister (11/11/11) which is aim to appeal to her reader to take action against the dredging of the Great Barrier Reef to accommodate for the coal-mining industry. The tone used was questioning yet demanding at the same time, and this positions the reader wonder if dredging the Great Barrier Reef is something worth doing as well as wanting to take action. Rice began her letter with hyperbole describing the dredging as ‘so 19th century, so destructive, so short sighted, so unnecessary, and so economically disastrous…’ This exaggerates that dredging will cause much worse consequences just like the 19th century where there was no awareness of humans action might have done to the planet which caused bad environmental impact such as global warming that we are suffering from now, which Rice mentioned in her letter. She then went on to appeal to the reader about the safety of their children in the future by stating that ‘….to be sure of having a liveable planet for our children, let alone our grandchildren and future generations we have to drastically cut out carbon pollution.’ Then she again reinforces her argument that dredging of the bay for coal extraction cannot help toward making a clean future. This will likely to shock the reader and this evokes the feeling of fear and the sense of security about their future generation and thus more like to agree that dredging is a no go.
His pent - up rage is expressed again in the final stanza “ Hands burn for a stone, a bomb to shiver down the glass”. This shows the frustration of the place and, possibly, the loss of solidarity, the fears among his people. Afrika.s sense of injustice is powerfully highlighted with the effective imagery of the “purple flowering amiable weeds” and the nefarious “crushed white ice; the single rose” which he turns into symbol of white oppression. The ending is stark and poignant as he feels those old feelings of oppression as his hands burn for a bomb to “shiver down the glass”.
Through his poems, Owen highlights the unjust experiences of soldiers to create a protest against the bureaucracy because of how they justified the harming and killing of many for their own political gain. He does this by highlighting the actions and inactions of the bureaucracy that contribute to benefit of the administration. This can be explored in his poems ‘Parable of the Old Man and the Young’ (Parable) and the epic war poem ‘Disabled’. These two poems employ Owens message of anti-war sentiment to establish a connection with the audience through his manipulation of poetic techniques. Owen highlights such unjust experiences of the soldiers to augment his argument against the bureaucracy.
In one’s life, nature can be used to express many hard shifts and successes one may go through. In Shakespeare, Macbeth one is able to notice his style of writing by which he uses nature to express the events and action taking place in the play. One of the major themes in Macbeth is nature, which Shakespeare uses to portray the events happening using good and bad nature characteristics. By examining how Shakespeare expresses the good and bad events using nature, one is able to see how he developed the major theme of nature by using imagery. Early in Macbeth, one is introduced to the use of negative imagery and the portrayal nature as a theme.
The Adventure of Mountain Hike....................................................... 8 4. Conclusion..........................................................................................11 5. Reference...........................................................................................12 Preface My essay will contain metaphor to help me writing about myself. I have found metaphor as a frame which has helped me to see and understand myself and how others feel about me. Lakoff and Johnson stated that the conceptual system in our society is a fundamentally metaphorical (Bolton, G. 2010).
Analysis of I Sit and Look Out by Walt Whitman I sit and look out” by Walt Whitman echoes all miseries and atrocities of life that rose to the surface in the wake of capitalism. 19th century witnessed a sea change in the lives of people as rat race for materialistic possession became more prominent and principles were relegated, concerns and emotions were sidelined from inside of human beings. The poet pen pictures such a sad tale of human life by attempting to pose as onlooker who watches everything but does nothing to alter situations. In this analysis of “I Sit and look out “by Walt Whitman, the capitalization of the verb “sit”denotes the action of an onlooker. It is also symbolic of the speaker who sits idle and shows no sign to do anything.
(a) ‘Heaney’s poetry continues to engage readers through its poetic treatment of man’s relationship to nature.’ Heaney’s poetry continues to engage readers through its vivid depiction of mans relationship with nature and how the relationship between nature and humanity is ultimately defined by the suffering in which humanity has endured as a result of natures unpredictable mass destruction. It is known to be part of the human condition to want to control nature in a way that can be proven impossible. The poetic treatment of this notion of mans relationship with nature can be depicted through Seamus Heaney’s ‘At a Potato Digging’ and ‘Storm on the Island’. Through this, it is evident that structured poetry as a text type gives an author unusual freedom in which to detail the dynamics of mans relationships to nature to their audience. It rings particularly true to the inconsistency of relationships when such a message is portrayed through the potato famine struggles aswell as an unknown amount of people stuck on an island during a storm.