Cloudy Day I Remember A Place Analysis

Places may live on in our memory if there are experiences that stand out to the mind. The memories may either be good or bad, but they are still memorable in our mind. There are examples given in most of the literature writing, most depend on recalling the past. Even our own personal experience can come to hand, with what we do remember about a certain place. Experience is what matters first hand. It also counts on what impression we got and what impression it left, or even how we felt during the moment we were there. Memory works that way, remember something good or bad, a mark engraved into stone in a way. Memory sticks with us even through painful ways. Most memories are very painful to remember or they may be memories that wouldn’t want to be brought up. “I thought of the day I was coming to prison, in the back seat of the police car,” Jimmy Santiago Baca, from the poem “Cloudy day”, remembers his first day arriving. Santiago Baca writes what he remembers, the day he had lost his freedom. A memory like no other, a memory of losing …show more content…
We can remember a place we’ve been to if anything astounding had occured during that time, then we don’t remember most places because nothing stood out to us. “...geography [is] a shaping force.” from the essay, A Literature of Place, by Barry Lopez writes that place does matter in memory. Geography matters to a human mind, a very important place can make a huge impact on memory. “...a specific and particular setting for human experience and endeavor.” A Literature of Place, written by Barry Lopez, he goes on to support that memory and place can connect on the experiences we have. Either good or bad that experience left its mark on us, we can conclude if we like or dislike a place through past experiences. Here is how memory and place are connected, depending on our past experiences with that place, we either come to think of it as a good or bad