These lines not only shows Snyder absorbing the imagery of the nature and the beauty of it, for example the beautiful snow of the mountains has provided him with cold water to drink and looking down symbolizes that he realizes the Earth is there just as Buddha did when he touched the earth, they are connected, as well as the awakening or the satori. The still air represents the breaths of meditation, the breaths are still and steady, the world around him is silent and still, and his thoughts are also still.
“Piute Creek”
In Piute Creek, Snyder describes the imagery of nature as too much, he wrote:
One granite ridge
A tree, would be enough
Or even a rock, a small creek,
A bark shred in a pool.
Hill beyond hill, folded and twisted
Tough trees
“Piute Creek”
In Piute Creek, Snyder describes the imagery of nature as too much, he wrote:
One granite ridge
A tree, would be enough
Or even a rock, a small creek,
A bark shred in a pool.
Hill beyond hill, folded and twisted
Tough trees