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Gary Snyder's 'Covers The Ground'

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Back in ancient time when humans had not developed language, our ancestors used shapes, lines and sounds to create meaningful drawings as a form of language to communicate with each other. Not until civilization had began and language was developed, people began to use words to describe the place where we live in. With the power of written language, humans have been able to document all the finite details of the world around us from the description of a species to an extent of the history of a tribe. Along with this, Classification has its important values to human as well. This is known as a process to help identify and classify something according to its quality and characteristics. When both of these disciplines are combined and presented …show more content…

In Gary Snyder’s poem, “Covers the Ground”, he describes his outdoor experience in the Central Valley by using metaphor. In verse 1 and 2, he illustrates what he saw when he was walking down the Great Central Valley. Through the description, Snyder paints a picture of the landscape of Central Valley that captures the beauty , the plants and the surroundings at that point in time during 1993. Also, Snyder descriptively captures changes of the plants, weather and the surroundings during that season. For example, it says“ And the ground is covered with cement culverts standing on end…” which illustrates the ongoing change in plants in respect to time and weather. Moreover, the imageries that’s presented by Snyder is a form of classification because this poem is a descriptive indication of the landscape during that point in time. Landscape and plants reflect and are dependent on the quality of the air, nutrients and weather. With Snyder poem, this shows that outlook of the landscape and it indicates specifically how plants behave and look in that era. This shows the history of a place and its surrounding. Also, the significance of capturing how things behave in the natural world is important because a change can happen in a split second and by documenting all the details, humans can study the changes

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