Friday, April 22, 2016

Nature is what we see

In this poem, there is one stanza consisting of 12 lines and it is one long sentence. The meter changes quite a bit in this poem, the first two lines are 6/1 (6 syllables to 1 line) and then the next lines vary from 7/1, 8/1 and sometimes even 9/1 and then go back to 6/1 for the end.  The rhyme pattern for the first three lines is ABA and then I believe the rhyme pattern for the next five lines is BCABA and the rhyme scheme ends as there are no more rhymes to include. The tone of this poem is uplifting as it talks heavily about nature and all things nice. In this poem she connects nature to harmony which means nature is peaceful. She also connects it to heaven which in a way, I think, is that it is everlasting.

The poem says that Nature is the most peaceful ant beautiful part of our world. She talks about the most beautiful aspects of nature or her favorite parts anyway. She also says "Our wisdom is impotent to her simplicity" which is basically saying that what we know is powerless to how simple nature is because nature is just beautiful and we will never know why or how nature is how it is because it is simply just there which is the definition of her "simplicity". She talks about the senses, sight and hearing and then gives examples of what we can see (the hills, the afternoon, the bumblebee, the squirrel) and then she talks about what we can hear (The Bobolink, the sea, the thunder, the cricket). I feel this is significant because it truly does emphasize that nature is all around us and that it invokes all of our senses.

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