Swamp Essays

Burns Bog is a domed bog which is approximately 3000 hectares in size and is mostly covered by peat. Under this peat, is a layer of deltaic sand which was deposited from the creation of the Fraser River over 5000 years ago (Comprehensive Guide to Burns Bog). This was when the Fraser River was a low wetland and as flooding occurred, sediments were carried and accumulated. Over the past 150 years, dykes and draining changes have impacted the vegetation (more dryer plants). This is a reason why only

towns and rivers go hand-in-hand. Memories of summer, rope swings, and swimming holes often come to mind when thinking about small towns and rivers. Sometimes the rivers are called streams or creeks, and sometimes they're called bayous, marshes, or swamps. The name depends on the geographical region of the United States you happened to be in at the time. Down south these bayous are the murky outlets of rivers or lakes, the small bodies of water that never seem to go anywhere. In the south,

“Crossing the Swamp”, Mary Oliver depicts the process of the speaker crossing the swamp. The speaker makes many observations about the swamp and the descriptions of it correlates with her view towards swamp. At first the speaker only sees the swamp as dark and dense, but later realizes the hidden details of the swamp that was not visible before. After crossing the swamp, the speaker is able to see the swamp as part of beautiful nature. In the poem, the speaker first addresses the swamp by repeating

com). Poets use a variety of literary devices to express their emotions and portray what they are perceiving. In the poem, “Crossing the Swamp”, Mary Oliver uses alliteration, tone, and imagery to manifest in the reader's mind the emotions she felt as she crossed the swamp. Alliteration within this poem is used to offer emphasis on perspectives that the swamp is being viewed through. Mary Oliver alliterated the words branching, burred, belching, bogs, peerless, pale, fooothold, fingerhold, hipholes

“Crossing the Swamp” depicts the speaker’s struggle to stay afloat while crossing a swamp. In the poem, the poet uses imagery, asyndeton, and metaphor to describe the relationship between the speaker and the swamp as a struggle to live. The comparison of life to the swamp reveals that success will come after persistence through scholarships because life will offer chances even after failure. In the beginning, the speaker introduces the description of the swamp and the current situation that the speaker

sustain its own magnetic aura, much like the musical implication in Lewis Nordans Music of the Swamp. Though, many argue Nordans piece suggests merely a collection of short stories rather than a novel, Nordan uses his singsong methodology- a novel-in-stories- to incorporate an anthology of his transformative memory- an autobiography of the way it was. By examining the structure of Music of the Swamp, it can be broken into a series of short stories, though it is described by some as a novel-in-stories

Crossing the Swamp written my Mary Oliver was able to build a strong relationship between the speaker and the swamp through a change in attitude, different poetic devices, and an overall shift in feelings. The change in attitude throughout Crossing the Swamp was able to give the reader a chance to see the gradual progression of the speaker’s new outlook. As the poem progresses, the character starts to see the light at the end of the depressive and challenging swamp by making his/her

“Crossing the Swamp,” utilizes allegory, alliteration, metaphor, and tone to convey an intricate relationship between herself and the swamp, that being her struggles in her life. A relationship that starts out with fear and ends in acceptance, stagnation to triumph, darkness to light; a relationship that allows her to be reborn. The swamp is a metaphor, described as “struggle, closure,” “the center of everything;” the swamp represents the obstacles Oliver faces in her life. She enters the swamp that is

“Crossing the Swamp,” Mary Oliver uses vivid diction, symbolism, and a tonal shift to illustrate the speaker’s struggle and triumph while trekking through the swamp; by demonstrating the speaker’s endeavors and eventual victory over nature, Oliver conveys the beauty of the triumph over life’s obstacles, developing the theme of the necessity of struggle to experience success. Oliver uses descriptive diction throughout her poem to vividly display the obstacles presented by the swamp to the reader

In the poem “The Swamp” by Mary Oliver the speaker talks about their relationship with the swamp. We can compare her struggles with something in our own life, wither it is school, work, or just your personal life. We can sew a struggle between the swamp and speaker through her word choice but also the imagery that the poem gives off. Imagery is used in the poem to get the reader involved in what a swamp might look and smell like. “here is struggle, closure pathless, seamless, peerless mud”, from

The Okefenokee swamp has and is seen in many varying ways, as shown in passages one and two. Both of the writers use imagery and language to show how they see and feel about the swamp in Florida. The two passages about Okefenokee have distinctive writing styles that can be shown through language analysis. Passage One has a more informational twist to the description of the swamp. While using words like “abundant”(22) and “Exotic”(19) the author gives us a more factual take on Okefenokee. With the

time in the Black Vine Swamp, they realize that she is caring for a panther cub. From then on, Nick, Marta, Mrs. Starch, and Twilly Spree try to protect the Black Vine Swamp. In Scat, there were three main ways in which these people got motivated to take action to save the environment. These include ending the illegal oil drilling done by Red Diamond Energy Corporation, saving a Florida Panther’s baby kitten from dying, and giving all other animals in the Black Vine Swamp a safe place to live. The

will have obstacles in their life, and many of these people say the important thing is how does one deals with them. In Mary Oliver’s poem “Crossing the Swamp” she writes about someone's experience with an obstacle. Oliver's use of vivid imagery and captivating diction reveal the speaker’s complex attitude towards the swamp. The poem paints the swamp as an almost evil entity. The author establishes a dark ominous feel. In the second line through the fourth line Oliver sets up the location of the poem

Okefenokee swamp is described differently by two authors. One suggest a calm favorable tone and the other a frightened, dark tone. The authors’ message is to inform people of the harsh reality behind the life of the swamp and the true beauty it contains. Both authors each exhibit a distinctive style through their deep contrast of the Okefenokee Swamp using imagery, diction, and figurative language. The authors’ messages can be compared through their use of diction. Passages 1 romanticizes the swamps with

"Crossing the Swamp," a poem by Mary Oliver, confesses a struggle through "pathless, seamless, peerless mud" to a triumphant solitary victory in a "breathing palace of leaves." Oliver's affair with the "black, slack earthsoup" is demonstrated as she faces her long coming combat against herself. Throughout this free verse poem, the wild spirit of the author is sensed in this flexible writing style. While Oliver's indecisiveness is obvious throughout the text, it is physically obvious in the shape

Falling Into a Swamp One bright and sunny day I had to go to school in first grade like normal and I couldn't wait to go home and play in the snow. The day went by in a flash, when school was over my dad picked me up and I told him about school and went home when we got home I asked my dad if I could play outside but he told me to put on my pink puffy jacket . My dog Norton was outside with me and my dad went inside and went on his computer in the backroom. I didn't know how to swim. I thought that

microorganisms of Susan’s Swamp, by measuring the amount of microorganisms found in each sample. I was looking for moving microorganisms because it was difficult to distinguish between the fertilizer and the microorganisms. According to Good and Beatty nitrogen is found in fertilizer and when the nitrogen is added to the aquatic ecosystem it will cause a flourishing of microbial growth, which can result in a “dead zone” (2). I hypothesized that the more fertilizer added to the Susan’s Swamp solutions, the more

Equine infectious anemia (EIA) also known as “Swamp Fever” is a very serious viral disease that attacks the horse’s immune system. Currently there is no cure for this disease and research is being done on vaccines for EIA. EIA’s first case was recorded in France in 1843. The scientist that discovered this disease first thought it to be related to a nutritional disease. Since the scientist thought the disease was a nutritional disease they began to adjust the feedings of the horse. After adjusting

There has been an oil scam near the Black Vine Swamp. The Red Diamond Energy Corporation (REDC) is an oil company. They're trying to find as much oil as they can without pumping the oil out of the ground. The government would pay them not to pump the oil. A man named Drake McBride is the head of the RDEC. He’s trying to make money off of a business, but it never works out. His next one is an oil company. He hires a man named Jimmy Lee Bayliss to find some oil for his company. Bayliss buys a 640 acres

effectiveness. Example: “There are cooters and snappers, opossum, coon and gar.” (AP Section II, Passage 2) Context: The author of Passage 2 describes the Okefenokee Swamp. In contrast to the first Passage, this passage is emotional and informal; through many literary devices, the passage communicates the wildness and hostility of the swamp, describing it as “leaf-choked” and “sodden”, filled with “seething galaxies” of bugs (AP Section II). It also lists the enumerate animals that are the swamp's inhabitants