Comparing Poetry Of John Muir And William Wordsworth

Kimmy Tweed
Mr.Sparks English 1
5/4/15

Comparing essay and poetry

The two authors John Muir and William Wordsworth are two authors that write two different types of literature, one being poetry and the other being essays. These two illustrative literature artists both included nature in their writings. They say that poetry and essays are completely different but on the other hand they have similarities. In the essay "Calypso Borealis" written by John Muir he compared his life and his feelings to the world around him. The nature around him explained how he felt if you look deeper into what he was saying. His feelings showed through the plants flowers and fruit all around him. He explained that happiness and the joy that everything around him gave him. In the poem "I wandered lonely as a cloud" written by William Wordsworth he explained
every feeling and action that he had and/or made with nature. The "I wandered lonely as a cloud" statement was showing that he was lonely and had nothing around him he felt as though he was all alone in the world. When he started to talk about the daffodils he seemed to have a better outlook on his feelings and life itself. Both authors used nature in two different ways. They both although explained their feelings and their world using nature that was around them. To conclude both authors did include something that had to do with nature. They may not have done it in the same way because an essay and poem are two different formats but they both used nature in some point of way. John Muir wrote an essay named "The Calypso Borealis" it explains nature in different ways than what people would think.
A direct quote from his writing is "The rarest and most beautiful of the flowering plants I discovered on this first grand excursion was Calypso borealis (the HIder of the North)."I believe this explains a lot because this is the title of the essay. The author John Muir explains how it looks to him out in the real world and why the title of the essay is what it is. Another direct quote from his essay that i believe was important would be "But when the sun was getting low and everything seemed most bewildering and discouraging, I found beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream, growing not in the ground but on a bed of yellow mosses in which its small white bulb had found a soft nest and from which its one leaf and one flower sprung." I think this statement is important because he explains how nature can take you from feeling sad and down to feeling like everything is perfectly ok. He shows that nature has its darkness but you can change your mind in a heart beat when you see something
beautiful. William Wordsworth wrote a poem named "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" explains characteristics of nature in a visual story mode. a direct quote from his writing is "I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills"This sentence which is the beginning statement shows that nature can relate to human feelings. If you look deeper into the meaning he is trying to show that nature has feelings just as us humans do. He is also showing that nature can change our mindset. Another direct quote that i believe is important "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance."This statement sticks with me because he is comparing human characteristics with nature. I believe he is trying to point out that thats the feelings that he is having but he doesnt know how to express himself without putting it through other objects. He is showing that everything and everybody an do some of the same things. The two authors John Muir and William Wordsworth are two authors that write two different types of literature, one being poetry and the other being essays.