Similarities Between Audubon And Dillard

When two people experience the same phenomenon, their reactions or expressions can be different depending on their focus. On this occasion, Audubon, a man that studies birds, is very exact in his account of a flock of pigeons flying overhead. He begins with “autumn of 1813… Henderson… of the Ohio on his way to Louisville;” he pinpoints his location a few miles beyond Hardinsburg. Dillard, on the other hand, has more of an artist’s soul, painting pictures through her literary writings. She sees things in similes when she writes, “the flight extended like a fluttering banner, an unfurled oriflamme” desribing the birds that flew overhead. Both authors experienced the same flocking of birds, but had different ways of conveying their experience. …show more content…
He makes reference to his location and the season as he wrote about his journey, starting with the where his journey started in Henderson and later at the confluence of the Salt and Ohio rivers at a friends house. He is very aware of the season whne he described the pigeons’ “dung fell in spots, [it was] not unlike melting flakes of snow.” When Adubon first saw the mass of birds, “he[felt] an inclination to count the flocks” as he made dots on his paper for each one and ”found that 163 had been made in twenty one minutes.” He seemed in awe and at peace with the multitude of flocks as he noted “The continued buzz of the wings had a tendency to lull the senses to