Use Of Romanticism In William Cullen Bryant's To A Waterfowl

Johnson speaks of a Bohemian shepherd who listened in on a vulture’s tale: the vulture described to her children the dynamics of man, and how through their battling with each other they provide the vultures food. The vultures ponder why man is so self-destructive to a degree not shared by any other animal. The purpose of the piece

The struggle between a young girl and the tempting offer presented by a handsome hunter in Sarah Orne Jewett’s short story “A White Heron” illustrates that man should not compromise his happiness or beliefs for material gain. As soon as Jewett’s protagonist, Sylvia moves from a noisy and crowded town to her grandmother’s quiet and modest farm, she immediately finds herself captivated and enthralled by the surrounding woods and wildlife “as if she never had been alive at all before she came to live at the farm” (Jewett). For Sylvia, experiencing the wild outdoors sets her on a path of self discovery and sparks within her a deep-seated love and respect for nature. Not long after learning of Sylvia’s passion for nature, a charming hunter offers

I see the blade, blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and shade. ”(line 7-9) This exhibits how mankind uses nature to get ahead. Man will essentially kill nature to advance himself. In conclusion, the poem,

One of the aspects of “Wild Geese” that truly struck my fifth-grade self was its use of imagery—I was drawn in particular to the extensive visual imagery in lines 8-13 (“Meanwhile the sun…heading home again”) and awed by the ability of text to evoke images of such clarity. Moreover, in addition to the intrigue of its use of literary devices and the complexity of its recitation, interpreting “Wild Geese” and finding meaning within it was a process that continued well beyond the end of my fifth-grade year, and the connotations of that poem continue to resonate with me. While the entirety of this story is too personal to share herein, “Wild Geese” was a poem that spoke to me on a very personal level. As I sometimes have a tendency to hold myself to unrealistic standards, “Wild Geese” was to me a reminder of the relative insignificance of the trivial matters with which I would preoccupy myself; nature became a symbol of that which existed beyond my narrow fixations and the wild geese a reflection of the inexorable passage of time—in essence, a reminder that “this too shall

I ask yourself to think back to a time where you were felt most free, that nothing seems impossible or too far out of reach. Where your curiosity has no limits. Where you remember sweet and happy memories of joy and love. The innocence of childhood. What we would give now as adults to go back to those days, while back then, all we wished for was to just grow up!

This passage from “A white Heron”, by Sarah Orne Jewett, details a short yet epic journey of a young girl, and it is done in an entertaining way. Jewett immediately familiarizes us with our protagonist, Sylvia, in the first paragraph, and our antagonist: the tree. However, this is a bit more creative, as the tree stands not only as an opponent, but as a surmountable object that can strengthen and inspire Sylvia as she climbs it. This “old pine” is described as massive, to the point where it, “towered above them all and made a landmark for sea and shore miles and miles away.” (Line 8).

In Robert Butler’s short story “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot” a widowed woman doesn’t know her husband is still with her, watching her, and that she adopted him in the form of a parrot. Robert Butler’s wife left him for a richer and even older man. He wrote an email to clear up the rumors about his marriage and seemed to accept that his wife chose another man. There is more meaning in the story than what meets the eye. Robert Butler took his own life experience and wrote it in the form of a story adding his own unique twist making the narrator a bird.

Flannery O’Connor’s The King of the Birds is a narrative explaining the narrator’s obsession with different kinds of fowl over time. The reader follows the narrator from her first experience with a chicken, which caught the attention of reporters due to its ability to walk both backward and forward, to her collection of peahens and peacocks. At the mere age of five, the narrator’s chicken was featured in the news and from that moment she began to build her family of fowl. The expansive collection began with chickens, but soon the narrator found a breed of bird that was even more intriguing; peacocks.

Looking through the literature book’s authors, I realized that a good portion of the authors included are female despite the time frame for the selections, the late 19th and early to mid-20th century, which was known for a different view on the capabilities and status quo of women from today’s. Sarah Orne Jewett’s short story A White Heron, follows a young girl who is torn between the decision to save a rare bird or make some money and please a new companion. In the story, the girl meets a hunter who is looking for a rare bird called white heron to add to his collection of birds he has killed, and he is willing to offer a money prize if she can tell him where one is. She goes on a journey to find the bird in which she climbs the tallest tree

Adventure and desire are common qualities in humans and Sarah Orne Jewett’s excerpt from “A White Heron” is no different. The heroine, Sylvia, a “small and silly” girl, is determined to do whatever it takes to know what can be seen from the highest point near her home. Jewett uses literary elements such as diction, imagery, and narrative pace to dramatize this “gray-eyed child” on her remarkable adventure. Word choice and imagery are necessary elements to put the reader in the mind of Sylvia as she embarks on her treacherous climb to the top of the world. Jewett is picturesque when describing Sylvia’s journey to the tip of one unconquered pine tree.

Imagine a tremendous fish with a beard. In Elizabeth Bishop “The Fish” a person catches a big fish that has been hooked before. The fish has broke a lot of hooks in the past, but this one person catches it and obtain victory. Then the person feels bad for the fish and throws it back into the water. The theme of the poem “The Fish” man over comes nature.

Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder’s “Whoso list to hunt” encompasses the love of a man for a beautiful, yet unattainable woman. Wyatt compares the unattainable love to the hunt of a hind, a female deer. The first quatrain introduces the hunt to the readers. The second quatrain counters the idea of hunting the female and rather acknowledges the task as unimaginable. The focus of the third quatrain regards the new idea that the female belongs to somebody else.

In the two poems Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Caged Bird by Maya Angelou, gave a comparison between the life of a caged bird and the life of a slave. There are similarities and differences in the two poems. The difference between the two poem is that Sympathy is more aggressive than the poem Caged Bird, and the similarities of the two poems is the theme and imagery. The poem Sympathy the poem

The bird showed persistence by trying to break free no matter the pain. The significance of these poems were that, they were relatable at the time to the horrifying

However there is a deeper connection between romanticism and nature all together. Many poets consider nature as the source of human ideas and emotions. “Henry David Thoreau says a poet who lived in a cabin on Walden Pond for two years, believed that people were meant to live in the world of nature”. Although the work of nature is characterized by search for self or identity, the poet William Wordsworth getting inspiration from Coleridge and nature wrote of the deeper emotions. Romanticism and nature are connected because the artists and philosophers of the romantic period romanticized the beauty of nature, and the power of the natural world.