Rogue River Canyon Analysis

A very powerful way to learn how to deal with life is contemplating and analyzing the power of nature. Actually, scientists, philosophers, artists, and even poets, used Mother Nature to reveal great messages on health, values, beauty, and character. Consequently, a writer from Oregon, a state with distinguished natural magnificence, described a famous landscape to create an unforgettable significance.

Throughout Natural Bridge/Rogue River Canyon, Paul Halupa, uses a straightforward and optimistic tone full of hope and confidence; he metaphorically creates mental snapshots of The Rogue River of Oregon, in order to compare its complicated structure to the perseverance to succeed in surpassing difficult life-challenges and hardships.

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In fact, readers are continuously moved from an image to another. For instance, a strong visual image of the speaker’s location is clear in the second stanza. In fact, he is standing “alone” (6) on the upper side of the Rogue River (4) contemplating its hard rocky wall that resulted from the volcanic eruption of Mount Mazama thousand years ago. Just standing alone in that tremendous view, connects to the fact that we occasionally find ourselves in a severe situation where we feel an urge to escape our usual place in order to think and reach the right decisions. The speaker’s reflection, in the middle of that landscape, is dominated by the non-stable aspect of water (7,8). In reality, in the heart of a problem, we experience an imbalanced mixture of doubt, hesitation and uncertainty. We weigh things up for their pros and cons and immerge deep in thought for the best choice. Accordingly, the unmistakable visual image is the speaker analyzing the way that the Rogue River finds its path. The poet states that the water might be blocked at times by the lava wall, but tries to find tiny openings, then ran into the darkness of the “Natural Bridge”. Eventually, the river stays underground, then flows through a series of lava tubes that has built over the years due to the water pressure. It later emerges from this tunnel in a wild form of fast-moving torrents. Similarly, in our life, the climax and the pressure built to confront hardships is comparable to the Rogue River; following the same pattern of water trying to find new paths as said in” The river hits the wall as if to drive it asunder/And finding a chute beneath, dives under” (16,17), we get to find our own correct paths even during the darkest and gloomiest situations by embracing people around