Artificial Life
“Spring” by Mary Oliver (U.S., born 1935) reflects a deep understanding of the natural world, and how it is changing drastically as the years go on. (In) Oliver was born in the quaint town of Maple heights, Ohio, and today she lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She started writing poetry when she was only 14, and many of her well known poems connect nature to the human world. (Ds) The setting of “Spring” is, like most of her poems, in nature where there are many mountains, and trees. In addition, the poem has an alternate human made setting where there is gravel and cities. The speaker seems to be Mary Oliver herself, as the speaker is referring to her longing for nature throughout the poem. The audience is the readers of …show more content…
At the start of the, the bear is waking up and looking over the mountains. This represents the time when all the plants and animals remained undisturbed on earth. Since the bear is a symbol for pure nature, the bear being surrounded by nothing but natural materials shows how the nature once was thriving and was not threatened. During this time, everything was peaceful, beautiful, and quiet until the humans began to dominate, which is addressed later in the poem. In the middle of the poem, the bear uses its “black fists”and flicks the gravel. Fists are used often to describe the hands of humans, but animals’, or the bear in this situation, fists too. In addition, the gravel that the bear flicks is used for many commercial purposes, but the rocks are originally found in nature. As fists and gravel are still found in nature but are used for human purposes, they represents nature slowly fading away. Because the bear is a symbol for the natural world, the bear’s paw being described as a fist, and the bear hitting the man made gravel, shows how there is a shift into an era where there is no value on nature. At the end of the poem, the bear sharpens her claw against the “silence of the trees”. There is a silence of the trees because the trees, and nature have disappeared. A bear survives by killing their prey to eat, and order to be able to kill fish and
“Spring” by Mary Oliver (U.S., born 1935) reflects a deep understanding of the natural world, and how it is changing drastically as the years go on. (In) Oliver was born in the quaint town of Maple heights, Ohio, and today she lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She started writing poetry when she was only 14, and many of her well known poems connect nature to the human world. (Ds) The setting of “Spring” is, like most of her poems, in nature where there are many mountains, and trees. In addition, the poem has an alternate human made setting where there is gravel and cities. The speaker seems to be Mary Oliver herself, as the speaker is referring to her longing for nature throughout the poem. The audience is the readers of …show more content…
At the start of the, the bear is waking up and looking over the mountains. This represents the time when all the plants and animals remained undisturbed on earth. Since the bear is a symbol for pure nature, the bear being surrounded by nothing but natural materials shows how the nature once was thriving and was not threatened. During this time, everything was peaceful, beautiful, and quiet until the humans began to dominate, which is addressed later in the poem. In the middle of the poem, the bear uses its “black fists”and flicks the gravel. Fists are used often to describe the hands of humans, but animals’, or the bear in this situation, fists too. In addition, the gravel that the bear flicks is used for many commercial purposes, but the rocks are originally found in nature. As fists and gravel are still found in nature but are used for human purposes, they represents nature slowly fading away. Because the bear is a symbol for the natural world, the bear’s paw being described as a fist, and the bear hitting the man made gravel, shows how there is a shift into an era where there is no value on nature. At the end of the poem, the bear sharpens her claw against the “silence of the trees”. There is a silence of the trees because the trees, and nature have disappeared. A bear survives by killing their prey to eat, and order to be able to kill fish and