John Wesley Powell: Image Of The Grand Canyon

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John Wesley Powell helps make a verbal landscape in the minds of the readers by using certain words and phrases. He helps create an image of the Grand Canyon by using certain words and phrases to make a picture in the reader’s mind. The place is “shown” to the reader by form and sound.

A phrase used to show the place through form is “…there are thousands of gorges…thousand Yosemites…form one grand canyon.” This descriptive detail forms an image of how insanely huge this canyon must be, since it seems to fit so much inside. Another phrase that describes the canyon is “...Clouds creep out of canyons an wind into other canyons…seem to be alive…following the multiplied courses of these gorges...skies come down into the gorges…” (303) This means