Poet Gary Snyder once said “nature is not a place to visit, it is a home”. Poets Mary Oliver and Pablo Neruda felt the same way throughout their poems “Sleeping In The Forest” and “Ode To The Enchanted Light”. Each authors style their use of mood and figurative language.
Both are similar in style because their moods show an amazement with nature. The author in “Sleeping in The Forest” is easy going through the whole poem, and literally sleeping in the forest as his thoughts float up to the sky. The author in “Ode to Enchanted Light” is staring at a tree and imagining every branch on that tree shinning. The author ends this poem with this quote “the world is a glass overflowing with water”. He means the world is life because water is life, without water we would not live. This quote “light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees” by “sleeping in the forest” proves that he is in awe of nature because the trees are perfect. Both poems “Ode to The Enchanted Light” and “Sleeping …show more content…
“Sleeping in The Forest” has 109 words in that poem. Although they have the same message Pablo Neruda who wrote “Ode to The Enchanted Light” has 48 words. Although they have the same message Pablo Neruda who wrote “Ode to the Enchanted Light” still conveyed his message in fewer words. Furthermore, both authors rely on different figurative language device in their poems. “Ode to The Enchanted Light” uses Similys and metaphor, and “Sleeping in The Forest” uses personification this quote “light like a green latticework of branches” by “Ode to The Enchanted Light” he uses figurative language such as Similys and metaphors. This quote “She took me back so tenderly arranged her dark skirts her pockets full of lichens seeds” this proves that anything they has similar poems about nature they found a way rite them
Both are similar in style because their moods show an amazement with nature. The author in “Sleeping in The Forest” is easy going through the whole poem, and literally sleeping in the forest as his thoughts float up to the sky. The author in “Ode to Enchanted Light” is staring at a tree and imagining every branch on that tree shinning. The author ends this poem with this quote “the world is a glass overflowing with water”. He means the world is life because water is life, without water we would not live. This quote “light as moths among the branches of the perfect trees” by “sleeping in the forest” proves that he is in awe of nature because the trees are perfect. Both poems “Ode to The Enchanted Light” and “Sleeping …show more content…
“Sleeping in The Forest” has 109 words in that poem. Although they have the same message Pablo Neruda who wrote “Ode to The Enchanted Light” has 48 words. Although they have the same message Pablo Neruda who wrote “Ode to the Enchanted Light” still conveyed his message in fewer words. Furthermore, both authors rely on different figurative language device in their poems. “Ode to The Enchanted Light” uses Similys and metaphor, and “Sleeping in The Forest” uses personification this quote “light like a green latticework of branches” by “Ode to The Enchanted Light” he uses figurative language such as Similys and metaphors. This quote “She took me back so tenderly arranged her dark skirts her pockets full of lichens seeds” this proves that anything they has similar poems about nature they found a way rite them