In “Bushed” by Earle Birney and “Winter Evening” by Archibald Lampman, both Canadian authors express the same opinion on nature: although nature is extremely beautiful, it is also uncontrollable and potentially dangerous. In both poems, the authors use descriptive imagery in the same way to depict the beauty and power of nature; however, the authors use different methods to communicate their opinion on the negative face of nature: Birney makes the danger of nature apparent at the beginning of the poem while Lampman is more sudden and conveys the sinister side of nature near the end of the poem.

Both authors use imagery to describe their opinion that nature is extremely beautiful and powerful. In “Bushed”, Birney depicts the mountain where