The beauty of nature is so intense it can be overwhelming
The beauty of nature is so intense it can be overwhelming.” In comparing and contrasting “How the old Mountains drip with Sunset” with at least one other poem, compare and contrast how the awesome aspect of nature is depicted in your collection.
The poems “How the old Mountains drip with Sunset” by Emily Dickinson and “Beeny Cliff” by Thomas Hardy both present nature as intensely beautiful with the critic Blackmur claiming that: “those poems where [Emily Dickinson] describes the effect of nature upon a sensitive observer are ... most effective… truly beautiful”. The awesome aspect of nature is depicted in a number of different ways but most importantly through structure, sound and repetition, natural imagery, and colour.
There are a number of structural similarities and differences within these poems. The exclamations of “how” within “How the old Mountains drip with Sunset” introduce a note of amazement into the poem. Similarly, “o” in “Beeny Cliff” is suggestive as an address, but also as a lament. This can be inferred to reflect that the beauty of nature is so overwhelming that the poetic voice cannot help but sigh over the memories that were captured in the landscape of “Beeny Cliff”. In “How the old Mountains drip with Sunset”, the idiosyncratic capitalisations personify the sunset, but also control the emphasis on the significance of the details within the landscape. The dashes are suggestive of punctuating the poem with emotional thoughts and excitement. As every new idea strikes the poetic voice, a dash is used to separate each one. The interjection “-Sapphire-” in the line “with a departing –Sapphire- feature” suggests the sudden registration of the vivid brilliant colour in nature. In the last line “Paralyzed, with Gold-”, the dash suggests the continuation of excitement, and the expectant waiting for the next detail of beauty nature will provide next. In contrast to this, the dashes in “-elsewhere-” in “Beeny Cliff” set the word in isolation,
The poems “How the old Mountains drip with Sunset” by Emily Dickinson and “Beeny Cliff” by Thomas Hardy both present nature as intensely beautiful with the critic Blackmur claiming that: “those poems where [Emily Dickinson] describes the effect of nature upon a sensitive observer are ... most effective… truly beautiful”. The awesome aspect of nature is depicted in a number of different ways but most importantly through structure, sound and repetition, natural imagery, and colour.
There are a number of structural similarities and differences within these poems. The exclamations of “how” within “How the old Mountains drip with Sunset” introduce a note of amazement into the poem. Similarly, “o” in “Beeny Cliff” is suggestive as an address, but also as a lament. This can be inferred to reflect that the beauty of nature is so overwhelming that the poetic voice cannot help but sigh over the memories that were captured in the landscape of “Beeny Cliff”. In “How the old Mountains drip with Sunset”, the idiosyncratic capitalisations personify the sunset, but also control the emphasis on the significance of the details within the landscape. The dashes are suggestive of punctuating the poem with emotional thoughts and excitement. As every new idea strikes the poetic voice, a dash is used to separate each one. The interjection “-Sapphire-” in the line “with a departing –Sapphire- feature” suggests the sudden registration of the vivid brilliant colour in nature. In the last line “Paralyzed, with Gold-”, the dash suggests the continuation of excitement, and the expectant waiting for the next detail of beauty nature will provide next. In contrast to this, the dashes in “-elsewhere-” in “Beeny Cliff” set the word in isolation,