As an outsider looking in, Earth is in bad condition. Saturn, the doctor, tells Earth "I'm afraid you have humans." Humans, in this case, is disease-like and like some diseases, it may lead to one's demise.
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Visual Rhetoric
As an outsider looking in, Earth is in bad condition. Saturn, the doctor, tells Earth "I'm afraid you have humans." Humans, in this case, is disease-like and like some diseases, it may lead to one's demise.
Monday, September 17, 2012
Turtle Island Themes
The Dead By the End of The Road
Snyder shows how the highway is a death trap for animals such as birds and deer. The main theme is that the highway plays a negative role in the relationship between nature and mankind (man-made things). Although the road-kill can be used as a resource for food and items ("a pouch").
Coyote Valley Spring
The theme is that life (plants, regions, animals) are better off not touched by mankind. The deer, bears, and squirrels seem to be in the wilderness, or the "Coyote Valley"; untouched by humans (the "lost people"). In the wilderness, the animals seem to have more of their environment intact and unharmed.
By Frazier Creek Falls
Snyder is taking his view and appreciating nature. The theme of this piece is that the land can be here as long as humans aren't ruining it. Mankind doesn't have to live off of "clothes or tools" but can live off of the earth alone with its plentiful resources.
Snyder shows how the highway is a death trap for animals such as birds and deer. The main theme is that the highway plays a negative role in the relationship between nature and mankind (man-made things). Although the road-kill can be used as a resource for food and items ("a pouch").
Coyote Valley Spring
The theme is that life (plants, regions, animals) are better off not touched by mankind. The deer, bears, and squirrels seem to be in the wilderness, or the "Coyote Valley"; untouched by humans (the "lost people"). In the wilderness, the animals seem to have more of their environment intact and unharmed.
By Frazier Creek Falls
Snyder is taking his view and appreciating nature. The theme of this piece is that the land can be here as long as humans aren't ruining it. Mankind doesn't have to live off of "clothes or tools" but can live off of the earth alone with its plentiful resources.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Turtle Island Themes
Without
The theme of this poem is humans have the power to renew Earth. It is not ones responsibility to try an d SAVE the world because it can not be saved, but it can be healed and replenished with the power that humans have grown to have.
Two Fawns That Didn't Get To See The Light This Spring
It is because of humans that animals lives are at risk. The two fawns in the poem both may have survived, but they would not be raised properly. A human can provide a fawn with food that act as supplements but what the fawn really needs is its' mother and the resources provided by the forest.
The Uses of Light
This poem is describing how both the sun and the moon contribute to Earth. The sunlight helps warm earth and it's inhabitants. The moonlight illuminates the night, allowing animals and humans to see earth.
The theme of this poem is humans have the power to renew Earth. It is not ones responsibility to try an d SAVE the world because it can not be saved, but it can be healed and replenished with the power that humans have grown to have.
Two Fawns That Didn't Get To See The Light This Spring
It is because of humans that animals lives are at risk. The two fawns in the poem both may have survived, but they would not be raised properly. A human can provide a fawn with food that act as supplements but what the fawn really needs is its' mother and the resources provided by the forest.
The Uses of Light
This poem is describing how both the sun and the moon contribute to Earth. The sunlight helps warm earth and it's inhabitants. The moonlight illuminates the night, allowing animals and humans to see earth.
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