Mans Relationship With Nature Flashcards
Three quotes to show mans relationship with nature in Aunt Julia
“stained with peat” metaphor, doesn’t appreciate nature
“she was winds pouring wetly round house ends” - metaphor, elements
“But I hear her still, welcoming me with a seagulls voice
across a hundred yards
of peatscrapes and lazy beds.”
Three quotes to show mans relationship with nature in Sounds of the Day
The whole of the first stanza is man’s appreciation of nature
“When a clatter came it was horses crossing the ford” - alliteration
“When the air creaked it was a lawping seeing us off the premises of its private marsh” - metaphor
“When the black drums rolled it was water falling sixty feet into itself” - metaphor
Four quotes to show mans relationship with nature in Basking Shark
“on a rock where none should be” - metaphor, monosyllabic language
“a sea tin-tacked with rain” - alliteration, metaphor
“this decadent townee” - self deprecating
“Emerging from the slime of everything” - metaphor
Three quotes to show mans relationship with nature in memorial
“no sunrise, no city square, no lurking beautiful mountain” - anaphora
“Dying, she tells me/ that bird dives from the sun, that fish/ leaps into it.” - reversal of natural order of things, enjambement, metaphor
“No crocus is carved more gently/ than the way her dying shapes my mind.” -metaphor
