Essay On Okefenokee Swamp

The Okefenokee Swamp is an interesting place to learn about regardless of how it is described in both passages.The writers differ extraordinarily in their style of writing about the swamp and in their description of the swamp. In the two written passages, there are two detailed descriptions of Okefenokee Swamp. Both seem to be factual; however, one author is informing the audience with facts about the Swamp, while the other is entertaining them by using figurative language to describe the swamp.

In the first passage, the style of the author's writing is factual, without giving away any emotions, but being neutral. This is overt in the passage when it states, "low, sandy ridges, wet grassy savannas, marshes, and extensive 'prairies,' or dark water areas covered by undergrowth and trees." Rhetorical devices that was used in this passage was precise diction and polysyndeton. The passage displays a very sophisticated and factual description of Okefenokee Swamp. Rather than attempting to …show more content…
He sees a "swamp archetypal", and a "hellish zoo" where things "fester" and "caterwaul." Where there is an abundance of activity and the swamp is a "bastion" and a "home." The voice that the author uses is entertaining, honest, and sincere. His style of writing is filled with vivid, strong metaphors and abstract characterization of sensuous, rich emotion, however the ideas are presented with clarity. The way the author described the swamp causes the readers to be so entertained by its passion, that they are persuaded to be in this, "hellish zoo of reverberating, screeching, and caterwauling.” In the passage, there clearly no unnecessary bumps; the author's writing was filled with bold energy and emotional power which engages the reader from beginning to end. To this author the Okefenokee swamp is like a poem; expression of emotion and to convey readers to see and feel what the author is