Leaves of Grass

that time of year, the leaves are starting to turn and the weather is still scorching hot outside. Fall has finally arrived and I’m back at school for another semester. Fall baseball has just begun and it’s time for the first scrimmage. I walk out of the locker room and put my hands over my laces, and step out on the concrete and hear that first crack of the spike hitting the ground. I head to the best spot on the field the third base dugout. The field looks great the grass is cut with a…

4th Stanza: The weather and the light are the highlighted aspects 5th Stanza: Explains the traits the prairies do contain, such as large trees, ornaments, vines, flowers, leaves, and grass. 6th Stanza: Shows how because of all the previously mentioned traits, geese do not fly to the prairies. 3. When the reader first looks at this poem, the title draws their attention because the reader will wonder why the geese are not welcome…

in the whole entire world and compares her to an angel symbolizing compassion and purity. Later throughout the story, Eleonora dies, leaving the narrator with lament and was left alone in the valley that becomes quite the opposite of “many-colored grass.” The narrator becomes fatigued by all the melancholy and relocated himself to a neighboring royal city where he establishes himself in court and loses himself to decadence (Chambers, par. 8) He is taken with a courtly lady, Ermengarde, and…

the plants and trees that grow around the campus. Of the variety of trees and plants, some were either planted or just naturally grows on campus grounds. There are employees that arrive on campus early in the morning and take care of the plants and grass found throughout the entire campus. Plants are widely known as the producer of oxygen that humans breathe in for respiratory purposes. However, it also provides a therapeutic feeling and helps us humans to feel better. Importantly, in the…

Atwood Narrative As the leaves bristle and the thin sheets of wind intrude through the slender opening of the window of the bus, sat a grey backpack with a variety of stickers scattered onto the fabric in diverse figures and colors, each giving the dull backpack a sense of flare. Besides the backpack displayed a boy sitting on a cold, leather seat, crossing his arms, a picture of his grandfather-who served in Camp Grant, now called Atwood- clenched tightly against his chest. “Now reaching…

blackheads. the tall uncut grass gave one snake a good hiding place, but the other snake was in the middle of the path.…

who simply bask in the warm weather in their backyard or garden. But before they can do that, they’d have to make sure the outdoors is perfect for hanging out. Why? Well, imagine this... Image credit: David Owen CC BY 2.0 Slightly overgrown grass. The growth may not be that tall; nonetheless, it’s not good to look at. Brown patches of uncovered ground. Would they want to let their children play somewhere prone to itch or rashes? Would they want to host a barbecue party and entertain…

The artistic stylization used by early 20th century artists implemented a versatility of techniques which served to embody the idea of unity and relationships. Thomas Hart Benton’s Romance (c. 1931-32), Jerry Bywaters’ Oil Field Girls (c. 1940) and Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Waitress from the Sparhawk (c. 1924-25)--which are all displayed all the Blanton Museum of Art--explore a sense of duality that exists between a human relationship. Through individual artistic methods and aesthetic approaches, each…

The Historic Iron King The Prescott area offers a diverse network of trails. Some of these trails can have treacherous hazards like large trees, sharp rocks and steep cliffs such as Smith Ravine trail number 297, Salida Gulch Trail number 95, and the Constellation Trail System. Whereas, some of them are flat maintained pathways of gravel like the historic Iron King Trail. The Iron King Trail was forged on the weathered foundations of the railroad tracks for the Prescott & Eastern Railroad which…

Over the last ten years I have called this place home, in the middle of a desert where the water dries up almost instantly the one time that it does rain on the year, were the heat leaves you in a constant state of sweating and thirst. The walls were hardly affective made out of a material covered in brown mesh and a black roof that prevented any light form entering and a window in the roof that was always covered and another window…