Silence. Not eerie, but peaceful. Nobody talks up here, but how would you find the breath, let alone the words to describe this place after a hike like that? So instead you just listen. Listen to the wind’s song to the sagebrush, the river’s trickling babble to the trees, the cheatgrass’ whisper to the clouds, begging for them to move so that they can spark a wild flame of destruction on these desert lands.
The last two lines say: “where a man learns the danger of words/where even a curse can start a fire” (22-23). The reference to fire and heat pertains to the men and their inner struggles. Heat in the fields is not only experienced as a physical quality, but a mental one as well. This provides added imagery of the men working in the fields, that wasn’t offered in the beginning of the poem, creating additional imagery to support the struggles of working in the
This passage from William Faulkner's "Barn Burning" is written to establish the beginnings of the breakdown of the Snopes family - and of Sarty himself - through the destructive storm that is Abner Snopes. The difference in character between Sarty and his father being described in the paragraph shows the beginnings of a rift between father and son. Where Sarty is very expressive as he is "leaping" and "scrabbling" in a "red haze", Abner emotes in a very contained fashion. Though Abner is "harsh" and "cold" as he "jerk[s]" his son, the words are of a very smothered sort of anger. This clear opposition in temperament between the two men direct the reader towards and impending future division.
“Eighteen-wheeler coal trucks rumble down the back roads. They spew clouds of coal dust into the air” ( Sacco & Hedges, pg 148). The image of a oversized heavy duty vehicle rolling through a back road, suggesting near a town gives the reader an idea of the proximity of the coal to homes, schools, and churches. Spewing clouds of coal suggest there is an enormous amount of coal released into the air. The image the most powerful is about children.
Once outside the camp, “it seemed as though an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side” (84). The motif of night can be identified effortlessly because of the key words and attention grabbing context of the literary
It was around eighty degrees farenheit, but the trees blocked the sun’s burning rays from our skin. The mountain breeze cooled us, and the serentity was the complete opposite of the chaos slightly downhill, in the network of clearings. “Holy cow,” Hayden shielded his eyes against
They pledge to an American flag on a bamboo pole surrounded by a white picket fence. This suggests this church is “home” to Professor Grant’s students. As they recite the pledge Grant can “see smoke rising from chimneys”, “hear the tractors” and feel “the air chilly enough for a sweater” (33). Gaines uses sensory language to make the reader “see the smoke” “hear the tractors” and “feel the cold air”. As Gaines is describing the imagery, he also describes the color of the sky as, “ashy gray”.
The writer depicts and describes the grim beauty in a somber scene, stating, “The smoke from the hooches smelled like straw. It moved in patches across the village square, not thick anymore, sometimes just faint ripples like fog….The girl went up on her toes and made a slow turn and danced through the smoke. Her face had a dreamy look, quiet and composed” (130). The child frolicking through the charred remains of her dwelling place and family leaves a peculiar feeling that the narrator intentionally places in order to capture the strange attraction and, moreover, the magnificence of war.
Wordsworth and Muir express their fascination with nature using imagery and mood. In “Calypso Borealis”, John Muir states that he finds himself “glorying in the fresh cool beauty and charm of the bog and meadow heathworts, grasses, carices, ferns, mosses, liverworts displayed in boundless profusion” (Muir). The words “boundless profusion” appeals to the sense of sight and helps us imagine the scene and all the bountiful natural beauty of the place. The image shows Muir’s relationship with nature because it demonstrates his overwhelming, nearly spiritual, experience with nature. In the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud”,
Eyes scanning in the same direction as my walk, I spotted a high square wooden structure approximately a mile away as a crow flies. There, erected on the peak stood the fire lookout on Park Butte. Ahead the Railroad Grade ridge could be seen slicing up right to left in the forefront of the massive Easton Glacier approximately a half mile away. Crossing a plateau, Tim led us by a few additional campsites and beyond to a ravine separating us and the ridge.
In some degree, also, they diverted my mind from the thoughts over which it had brooded for the last month. I retired to rest at night; my slumbers, as it were, waited on and ministered to by the assemblance of grand shapes which I had contemplated during the day. They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine; the eagle, soaring amidst the clouds--they all gathered round me, and bade me be at peace.”... (page 109-110)... I remembered the effect that the view of the tremendous and ever-moving glacier had produced upon my mind when I first saw it. It had then filled me with a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul, and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy.
My eyesight worsened as fog rolled in. I didn’t know where I was going but these flames were leading me to something great. I felt as if they were calling my name. I heard a crack and a shifting of branches front of me. “Who’s there?”
It also exemplifies the jurastic difference between the peaceful areas of the forest and the extreme woods in Alaska. One moment there can be a nice little open field and the next you cannot see ten feet without a tree getting in your way. From that the reader can easily foreshadow the events to come in Alex’s
John Muir’s essay, The Calypso Borealis, and William Wordsworth’s poem, I wandered Lonely as a Cloud, are two wonderfully written works centered towards their love for nature. They were able to create vivd images in the reader’s head through their writing as well as emotional transitions. Both works, inspired by events in the 19th century, have their differences, however, their emotion and love for nature is the same and creates the same impact with the
Robert Frost expresses rural American life and love of nature through the scenes and metaphors of his poetry. In the “Stopping By Woods,” Frost writes, “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / and miles to go before I sleep.” He put in mind of the “promises” he has to keep of the miles he still must travel even though he want to enjoy the great view in the snowy woods.
