Despite having an arduous life in Canada, he has in part fulfilled his idea of a personal heaven by living in an urban and developed setting; and primarily escaping the judgments of the apathetic islanders. Yet, this idea of a perfect life is incomplete; it lacks “some sweet island woman with whom he’d share his life, of having children and later buying a house” Many times in life, future gratification in unforeseeable, and occasionally — such as in the instance of Max — sacrifices may result in a sense of disillusioned inaptitude. Within this excerpt of the short story “Mammita’s Garden Cove” by Cyril Dabydeen, the author’s complex attitude towards place is conveyed by Dabydeen’s use of repetition, diction, and
As Burke argues “when members of specific communities express a scenic perspective, the ambiguity and flexibility of the pentadic terms comes to the fore. Distinctions between “agent”and “scene” may become blurred in the concept of a community or social identity, which often includes both personal qualities and literal place. Individuals who make up a peculiar community may explain their own behavior as
In the poem, Cortez used contrast, symbolism and repetition to reveal that urban life makes people lose their self-identity, become hopeless and aggressive and have pathetic life. Firstly,cortez used contrast thought out the whole story to satire
Landscape is a non-neutral, dynamic, animated entity that can reflect gender, race, and power relations. It can be a representation of a location and can also influence feelings towards a location. Thus, “landscape is not only a ‘thing’, but is also an ideological or symbolic process that has the power to
He describes the land outside the city as “unnoticed,” “hidden,” “neglected,” and “isolated.” This differs from the crowded city environment that the speaker did not approve of. The author also portrays the “unfenced existence” of the space, such as a bird flying through the sky or a fish swimming through the sea. Lastly, the speaker concludes with repetition of the word “here.” By using this technique, he displays his excitement for the new land around him.
The painter uses a two point perspective. Drawn to the buildings’ geometric forms and the patterns of sunlight and shadow they created, the artist produced a picture, using the realistic stylistic terminology, which evokes an emotional response to the
One example is the Auburn movie theater. It didn’t exist when I first moved here. Instead it was a big open field of grass and trees. It was nature. I remember this because at the time my family was trying to find a new house in Auburn, and the one house that caught their eye was right next to the big field, the soon to be movie theater.
Mary Louise Pratt’s essay “ Arts of the Contact Zone” opens up a new concept for social spaces where cultures meet in a context of extensive differences of power in social and intellectual classes. Pratt has a lot of thoughts regarding contact zones and communities that she supports by describing different scenarios. The contact zone is a place of many emotions. It can be a dangerous place where people misunderstand each other, but it can also be a place where people learn from each other and have a mutual understanding.
Growing up with my dad I went on a lot of hiking, backpacking, and kayaking trips to many different places. It wasn’t really about where we were going because I knew, in my mind, that wherever we were going to go it was going to be beautiful. There was one trip in particular where we were kayaking the Colorado River near Hoover Dam and I remember being amazed by the water, vegetation, and how a mountain goat could be at the very edge of the mountain and not fall off. My first instinct was to “observe the landscape, attending for reasons of [my] own to aspects of its appearance and to sundry goings-on within it” (Basso, 1988, 100). However, looking back now at my experience of the trip, I can still recall how beautiful the nature was, but what
Ceaser writes, “a knowledge of place seeks to understand the constraints and developmental forces at work in the world both in time (a historical era) and space (a people or a nation)” (42). In other words, the study of place looks at two ideas: the point of origin or the development of a society and the character of the people. Tocqueville relies on Montesquieu’s general causes of social life, those being physical causes and moral causes. The physical causes subject a people group to develop in a particular way, whether it’s geography, climate, or placement. Moral causes are what allow people in the same physical contexts to differ in their development, and these causes include religion, manners, and the way of thinking (43).
The sight of this picture imparted much of the luxurious repose and satisfaction, which we derive from contemplating the finest scenes of nature. Here was the poet, as well as the painter, touching the imagination, and making you see more than the picture contained. You saw the real light of the sun, you breathed the air of the country, you felt all the circumstances of a luxurious climate on the most serene and beautiful landscape; and the mind thus softened, you almost fancied you hear Italian music in the
It is a place that I can sit and look out into nowhere; sometimes thinking about things, sometimes not. I can now relate this feeling to Thoreau’s “Walking” piece. He finds it liberating to travel without a destination and I find it liberating to think without a specific topic or
In both situations, the poets refer to their surrounding as visual artwork for humanity. Mankind tends to believe they know best, especially when suffering through the cruelties of nature that are not understood. When given the end result of magnificence and beauty, the pain is worthwhile. Through these depictions of nature, the poets show that nature is more than just the environment, but
It is that of pain and suffering, a longing for somewhere to belong and the desire to have “the Earth and everything that’s in it”. If the words of
It looks like an abandoned place for countless decades. Silence is what you hear when you walk alone the narrow path yet, in every little house, there is always that sweet laughter, that only us, from the same line of poverty, would understand. What could be worse than living in a place with no name? Our little place seems to be a pigment of someone’s imagination, a place that nobody knows. The provincial officials, all would wonder and would raise the same question, “Where is that?”“Does that belong here?”“Is that part of the province?”
