The Moon Now Rises To Her Absolute Rule By Henry David Thoreau
The poem I chose for my final paper was “The moon now rises to her absolute rule” by Henry David Thoreau. The poem is Thoreau first describing the moon and everything that falls under it. In the poem Thoreau shed light on the hunters as well as plants who are thankful for what the moon does for them. In this essay is going to breakdown the poem entirely from the form used as well as the language. This poem also contains imagery which allows readers to imagine the scene Henry is describing. Before getting into the analysis of the poem I’m going to go over basic information about the author. Henry David Thoreau was born in 1817 in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau went to a public school then went to private school called Concord Academy and
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Thoreau's use of imagery allows the reader to picture the scene he is describing with his words in this poem he does a great job depicting leaves on a river he says, “And yellow leaves clothe the river- and nought disturbs the serious life of man”. This quote did a good job at giving the reader a mental vignette of a river filled with leaves on top of it. Something else that I found in this quote was Thoreau’s use of personification when he said the river was clothed with leaves giving the river a human like characteristic. Thoreau also uses personification again at the start of the poem when he refers to the moon as a her.The second use of imagery in the poem is when Thoreau writes, “ The fields are reaped and shorn of their pride/But an inward verdure still crowns them;”. This quote gives me the mental picture of a field which has already been harvested, but what still remains is some green vegetation. The last use of imagery is near the end of the poem where Thoreau says, “But behind the sheaves and under the sod/There lurks a ripe fruit which reapers have not gathered/The truest harvest of the year—the boreal fruit/Which it bears forever”. In this quote Thoreau is obviously talking about one fruit in which the reapers failed to get, but I get something different from this quote and its a connection to survival. Throughout this poem Thoreau is speaking on his connection to the wilderness. As I read an reread the poem the more I start to think that the reaper of fruits is Thoreau
Thoreau's use of imagery allows the reader to picture the scene he is describing with his words in this poem he does a great job depicting leaves on a river he says, “And yellow leaves clothe the river- and nought disturbs the serious life of man”. This quote did a good job at giving the reader a mental vignette of a river filled with leaves on top of it. Something else that I found in this quote was Thoreau’s use of personification when he said the river was clothed with leaves giving the river a human like characteristic. Thoreau also uses personification again at the start of the poem when he refers to the moon as a her.The second use of imagery in the poem is when Thoreau writes, “ The fields are reaped and shorn of their pride/But an inward verdure still crowns them;”. This quote gives me the mental picture of a field which has already been harvested, but what still remains is some green vegetation. The last use of imagery is near the end of the poem where Thoreau says, “But behind the sheaves and under the sod/There lurks a ripe fruit which reapers have not gathered/The truest harvest of the year—the boreal fruit/Which it bears forever”. In this quote Thoreau is obviously talking about one fruit in which the reapers failed to get, but I get something different from this quote and its a connection to survival. Throughout this poem Thoreau is speaking on his connection to the wilderness. As I read an reread the poem the more I start to think that the reaper of fruits is Thoreau