Great Earth Poem Analysis

integrates all that surrounds him as part of his attachment and dependency shifting it as a whole of his existence (67-71). Through the author’s bodily image and its naturistic surroundings we learn that its environment is also connected with this theme of daily love not solely referring to humans, but to all things that exists on the “Great Earth” (92). The authors, similarly, structure their poems in the same direction, in terms, of how they begin and close their lines with the subject of the same person or thing. This is comprised with the display of love that exists within each past and direct experience. For instance, in Lee’s poem, the speaker initiates his father’s tenderness and love in removing the frightful “splinter” without integrating more pain into his palm and ending his last line with his beloved father. Thus, emotions aren’t revealed in their …show more content…
The love structured in Snyder’s poem is through every human being and every object as the speaker describes it from start to end: “warm water” (8) “soapy hand feeling” (12) “sierra forest” (24) “playing with her breast” (62) “slide ourselves down from the benches” (81). The poem is structured in the expression of a loving language to showcase the presence of warmth throughout the speakers observance and at the same time being a part of this moment he manifests: the speaker introduces language, such as, “warm water” (9) “laughing… jumping” (19) “a hand of gail” (36) “jolts of light” (46); the speaker continues with the presence of love towards the middle, “joy forces” (60) “love their mother” (74); and as the speaker comes to a closing ending the presence of love is still revolving, “hugging babies, kissing bellies” (91). The speaker in “The Bath” is never in the absence of love since humans, objects and environmental nature–all things that are present in the planarity earth– is love