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'The Spell Of The Yukon'

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The authors message about the relationship between nature in man is that nature will always win when faced against man. In the Poem "The Spell of The Yukon" the poem is told from a miners perspective of the gold rush and the eagerness the miner has to find some gold. The poem talks about how the miner is in insane want to find the gold and get rich off it. Nature lures the man with gold into a situation where all he wants is the gold. By saying "I wanted the gold, and I sought it; I scrabbled and mucked like a slave." shows the temptation nature had on the miner. The miners hubris though is not punished rather it is turned into realization of the beauty in nature. we see this happen when the author says "T'here's gold, and it's haunting and
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