The Greatest Nature By Brian Doyle Analysis

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The Greatest Nature Essay by Brian Doyle can be divided into three portions: the why, the how, and the result of powerful nature writing. The first portion of why nature writing is important ends after the second paragraph where Doyle chooses to end it with, “...stories are the most crucial and necessary food, how come we never hardly say that out loud.” From this question and everything preceding tells the importance of nature writing. It lures in the reader with its beauty and ability to move them emotionally. After Doyle tells of the wonders of the capabilities of nature writing he moves onto the next chunk, the how nature writing draws in the reader. This portion ends halfway through the fourth paragraph right after, “...the quiet murmur of the writer tiptoeing back to the story he or she was telling you in the second and third paragraph.” In this portion, Doyle talks about the tools employed such as diction and sentence length that make writing impactful. It builds on the reason nature writing can be so strong through world play and various techniques an author sneaks into his or her work. Lastly, the last chunk starts where the last division ends when Doyle writes, “The story slips back into view gently, a little shy…” Doyle points out that the ending of great nature writing
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It immediately draws the reader from the title to the writing. Throughout his entire essays he constantly breaks rules like using the second person pronoun “you” and writes in incomplete fragments sentences when he writes “Shards of sentences.” The essay strays away from the principles of a typical piece of writing. He ironically breaks the fourth wall in a poetic manner that advertently relates his writing back to the uniqueness of nature.
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