What Are The Similarities Of A Storm In The Mountains And To An Aged Bear

The poem and the story both demonstrate how nature would continue without mankind. Both tell how nature is always victorious. For example, in the story, a tree falls onto the houses causing them to burn. "A failing tree bough crashed through the kitchen window. " The house tries to defend itself, using technology, but the power of nature is too strong.

Bryant is discussing the afterlife of a human and what they will endure. He explains, “Thine individual being, shalt thou go To mix for ever with the elements, To be a brother to the insensible rock” (0000) Bryant perceives death as a glorious finale to an individual's life. In his poem, nature is connected with human beings in her never ending cycle. Bryant also provides examples of sensational writing in his poem.

The poem describes the process of spring, so natrually the speaer notes details of spring such as the sun shining on their neck, the spikes of the crocus blooming, and the pleasant smell of the earth. However, the poem twists the archetype of spring by having this period of rebith remind the speaker of death. The speaker sees the life that springs brings as insignificant. The speaker acknowledges the beauty spring brings is not enough to quiet their thoughts on death, the speaker can only note how the ground is filled with the brains of men eaten by maggots, and how life itself is nothing. The speaker sees life as an empty cup, and they are not pacified by the life and joy springs brings as they remian unfulfilled.

The poems “Because I could not stop for Death” and “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died” by Emily Dickinson both describe death and a journey one takes to get there. In “Because I could not stop for Death” the speaker tells of someones journey of death that did not see it coming and had no time to slow down to notice it. While in the poem “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died” the speaker describes ones journey to death that aware it is coming, someone who is prepared and waiting for it to happen. Death can arrive in many different forms, it is different for everyone and nobody knows or can predict accurately when or how it will come no matter how prepared or not prepared someone is.

Over the course of time, humans have developed certain societal standards, ones which must never be broken at any cost. Despite this, nature, being the unstoppable force it is, is often able to defy these standards. This phenomenon is examined in Kate Chopin’s short story The Storm and Emily Dickinson’s poem “I heard a Fly buzz- when I died,” as in them, both authors explore how nature pays no heed to societal customs surrounding marriage and death respectively.

In the poem, nature is capitalized and personified as a woman. Based off of this poem, Nature has relationship with each of us and has a further connection with death. A critical essay by Victoria Price that analyzes this very poem states that “this poem provided reflections on topics that had real relevance to the citizenry: human mortality, the perception of death as separation, and the transience of life” (1). Bryant perceives death as finally becoming one with the earth and its “elements” (Bryant 27), and leaving our former lives behind. When he stated

The storm meant fury and destruction of things that were loved and needed. “De lake is comin’!” (Hurston

Nature is personified using “she”, such as “She has a voice of gladness, and a smile and eloquence of beauty…” (lines 5-6). This helps bring comfort to the thought of dying, as it is later stated “Earth, that nourished thee, shall claim thy growth, to be resolved to earth again”(lines 22-23). Speaking so highly of nature and then reinforcing it as our final resting place removes any ounce of fear once had, and instead makes us glad to lay with such a beautiful thing for the rest of eternity. Another point brought up is that you’ll never be alone sleeping in the dirt with “...patriarchs of the infant world - with kings, the powerful of the earth - the wise, the good, fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past” (lines 34-36). Bryant uses examples of some of the greatest humans that lived sometime in the past two million years to show that in death, there is nothing separating people by social or economic status and nothing at all to be scared about.

In the first stanza’s, the narrator’s voice and perspective is more collective and unreliable, as in “they told me”, but nonetheless the references to the “sea’s edge” and “sea-wet shell” remain constant. Later on the poem, this voice matures, as the “cadence of the trees” and the “quick of autumn grasses” symbolize the continuum of life and death, highlighting to the reader the inevitable cycle of time. The relationship that Harwood has between the landscape and her memories allows for her to delve deeper into her own life and access these thoughts, describing the singular moments of human activity and our cultural values that imbue themselves into landscapes. In the poem’s final stanza, the link back to the narrator lying “secure in her father’s arms” similar to the initial memory gives the poem a similar cyclical structure, as Harwood in her moment of death finds comfort in these memories of nature. The water motif reemerges in the poem’s final lines, as “peace of this day will shine/like light on the face of the waters.”

The narrator’s changing understanding of the inevitability of death across the two sections of the poem illustrates the dynamic and contrasting nature of the human

Longfellow and Lightman may express their opinions on nature differently, but still manage to get their point across by using varying techniques and structures. Nature can be seen through many perspectives and views from differing people based on their past and relationship with nature. Although Longfellow and Lightman may have been alive at different time periods they both generally have the same attitude about nature. Both of the authors can express how they feel throughout both of the poems easily and are able to show how they are affected by nature. While nature is one the most powerful thing on earth, it is also so powerful it is able to affect people and their daily

Whitman and Dickinson share the theme of death in their work, while Whitman decides to speak of death in a more realistic point of view, Dickinson speaks of the theme in a more conceptual one. In Whitman’s poems, he likes to have a more empathic view of individuals and their ways of living. For example, in Whitman’s “Song of Myself”, the poet talks about not just of himself, but all human beings, and of how mankind works into the world and the life of it. Even though the poem mostly talks about life and the happiness of it, Whitman describes also that life itself has its ending, and that is the theme of death. For Dickinson, she is the complete opposite of happiness.

Walt Whitman is one of the leading mystic poets of death in the field of American poetry. Death is assigned a distinguished space in his poetic universe of Leaves of Grasswhich immensely colours his vision of life. This paper is an attempt to present Whitman’s attitude towards death vis-à-vis global mystic perspective. Reality of Death

Rich 's "Storm Warnings" has more than one meaning. One being literal, and another being metaphorical. The literal meaning of the poem is that there is an impending storm, and the author is anticipating and preparing for the storm to come. The metaphorical meaning of the poem is the author is suffering from an emotional storm. The literal and metaphorical meanings of the poem are shown to be similar when Rich writes, "Weather abroad and weather in the heart alike come on regardless of prediction.

The poem, written by Sara Teasdale, was written as a response to World War I. The poem’s main theme is the idea that nature will always outlast humanity.