Bog

Although the connection between a swamp and life may not seem relevant, Mary Oliver creates a scene of a treacherous swamp alluding to the hardships in life. In Crossing the Swamp, Oliver uses structure, tone, and imagery to describe the crossing of a swamp and its parallelism to the life's struggles. The Oliver's structure guides the readers through the swamp cautious as if the swamp really is dangerous. The swamp is described as "endless" in the beginning. This is obviously meant in a…

choice and syntax. At the beginning of the poem, the speaker describes the swamp as everything. The speaker refers to the swamp as the “center of everything,” that is made of “dense sap,” and includes “branching vines” and “dark burred faintly belching bogs.” The poet’s word…

Early in the movie Andy gets a rock hammer and a poster of Rita Hayworth. Those things become very important later on in the movie. In Andy’s first year of prison he is regularly assaulted and raped by a gang called The Sisters and their leader Bogs. He does not complain but tries to inhibit them and is happy when he gets a job license-plating the roof. There he hears the captain of the guards, Byron Hadley, complaining about money problems and as a former banker, helps him.…

People have a deep interest in bodies, both living and deceased. Throughout society, there are examples of what the good-looking, healthy, and all over ideal body is, with a billion-dollar industry behind it. There is also an enormous industry behind bodies of the deceased: specialists such as doctors, pathologists, and morticians work with corpses on nearly a daily basis. However, interest in dead bodies has grown astonishingly in the past few decades for a variety of reasons. The idea of the…

Many people are aware that Hawaii is a beautiful and rich place. Lots of people dream of vacationing or honeymooning in Hawaii because of its rich culture, beautiful volcanoes, and gorgeous beaches. What about the history of Hawaii? How did it get to be the beautiful place that it is today? The Polynesians were the first people to settle in Hawaii anywhere from 300 to 700 A.D. They came across the Pacific in boats and found their way by navigating along the stars. They brought with them some of…

walk to a big pond down the street at my old house and go frog and turtle catching during hot summer days. The green frog likes to spend its time near or in ponds, marshes, and streams. It can be found in many other places like wetlands, swamps, and bogs. The green frog adapts to different…

character known as Zulf, who is another survivor of the “Calamity”. The audio visual presentation of Bastion consists of magnificently composed soundtracks combined with beautifully immersive atmospheres. The atmospheres of the game consist of dire bogs, ruined cities, and dark forests. Levels are usually composed of many waves of enemies as the narrator describes the circumstances as well as the player’s actions. The narrator carries the plot as well as immerses the player in the atmosphere.…

In was the Fourth of July and we had our annual mud-bog (it’s where you drive your cars/trucks through this huge muddy hole) and we had a foot race through the bog. As all the kids lined up to start the race we all were focused on the two hundred dollar prize for the winner, everyone was so serious, except for me of course. As we heard the starting bell everyone…

“Crossing the Swamp” is a second person point-of-view narration on the vast details of a swamp. Mary Oliver purposefully personalizes the text speaking in a direct manner to the reader as to explain an experience she dealt with or feels strongly about. The swamp acts as a deep characterization of some larger event, yet Oliver keeps in generalized to appeal to a larger audience. Through the use of elementary diction, grammatical pauses, and imagery, the poet creates a dramatic response to the…

Andy is routinely assaulted by “the Sisters”, and after helping Hadley, the main guard with a tax issue, Bogs, the leader of the sisters is severely beaten and sent to another prism. Andy begins managing the prison’s financial records and is eventually exploited by Warden Norton, a sadistically ruthless man, to launder money received from bribes for prison…