Swamp

between the speaker and the swamp in “Crossing the Swamp.” The speaker’s journey through the swamp becomes a relatable story to every reader who has experienced struggle. With imagery, structure, and an extended metaphor, Oliver creates this relationship between the speaker and the swamp to transcend off the pages and into the reader’s heart. In a first read through of the poem, it is immediately understood that Mary Oliver wishes to paint a vivid picture of a swamp. This vivid picture shifts…

In the poem “Crossing the Swamp” by Mary Oliver, the speaker tries to navigate the terrain of a difficult landscape. He/she has a complex relationship with the swamp that is the focus of the poem. By employing expert diction/imagery, parallelism, personification, and symbolism, Oliver suggests that the speaker struggles with the swamp but also appreciates its endless capabilities for redemption. In the first section of the poem, struggle is shown through the poet’s word choice and syntax. At the…

Yellow Peril in Canada: “The Swamps Come Back” as an Anti-Asian Allegory Published in the August 1941 issue of Uncanny Tales, Nadine Booth Brumell’s short story “The Swamps Come Back” features a group of white men seeking to save the world from an alien race. Throughout the story, the alien race never explicitly harms anyone and never talks of a plan to take over the world. It is only the race’s intelligence, reproduction, and being yellow that are implied to be the issue at hand. This paper…

I never thought I would push myself beyond my expectations until the day I wanted to become a Swamp Fox. Swamp Fox is a special forces organization at the college I currently attend, Marion Military Institute, which teaches its inducted cadets small unit tactics, techniques, and procedures. I knew it was not going to be easy to be inducted but I also knew that by doing so I would push myself to become a part of a brotherhood that would enlighten me. Of course I did not know exactly what to…

Station 3 analyses the quality of water within Baldwin Swamp through investigating the pH Level; the turbidity; the waters dissolved oxygen, nitrites, nitrates, ammonia and temperature. The obtained results convey the pH was neutral in 2009 but is currently 5.95, the equivalent of a normal river stream or that of milk. This Ph level is great because nutrients are most available to plants in the optimum 5.5 to 7.0 range, making the difference in the pH not effective to plants. These Ph levels…

Ground-dwelling mammals triggered 89,581 images or 53.3% of the total images over 3640 camera days. Ten terrestrial mammal species were identified from all study sites (full list in Appendix 1). Swamp Wallaby, Bush rat, and Long-nosed Potoroo triggered most of the images containing terrestrial mammals. Swamp Wallaby, Short-beaked Echidna, Bush Rat and Eastern Grey Kangaroo were widespread over the study area. With the exception of Dusky Antechinus and Long-nosed Bandicoot, detection…

to their small plain of wild grasses, fruits, vegetables and-." "Hold it right there! I thought we were telling a story Lycanto not documenting on live TV on how a family of five are reenacting "The Werewolf of Fever Swamp," with country kids and a lagoon that looks more like a swamp-creek thing." "Does he comprehend anything that comes out that muzzle of his." "No he does not and you young one are no better so scatter." "Okay off I go." "But not in the mud! You know how mother is!" "Yeah…

maple gained the nicknames of Silver leaf maple, Soft maple, Water maple, Swamp maple, White maple and Creek maple; to compare I go by the nicknames of Tye, Tee, Nae, or Renee. To compare, Silver maple trees grow along swamps, creeks, and rivers and being that I was born and raised along the Mississippi river as well as being instilled in the swamp life early by taking many tours and trips to Alligator Bayou and Acadian Swamp tours in my younger days. Furthermore, I would like to talk about…

Although the connection between a swamp and life may not seem relevant, Mary Oliver creates a scene of a treacherous swamp alluding to the hardships in life. In Crossing the Swamp, Oliver uses structure, tone, and imagery to describe the crossing of a swamp and its parallelism to the life's struggles. The Oliver's structure guides the readers through the swamp cautious as if the swamp really is dangerous. The swamp is described as "endless" in the beginning. This is obviously meant in a…

“Crossing the Swamp” Rewrite Our lives are filled with hardships, struggles, and challenges, whether large or small. Yet through these difficulties in life, we experience growth and change as people. In her sensational poem, “Crossing the Swamp,” Mary Oliver shows how growth and change are capable in the complicated, messy hardships we encounter. In her poem, the speaker’s experiences within the swamp is desperate yet grateful, revealing how growth and change are capable. Oliver transports the…