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    Audubon And Dillard

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    Prose and Poetry‚ Audubon and Dillard "What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are." That famous quote from the writer C. S. Lewis reveals the main difference between Annie Dillard’s and John James Audubon’s essays dealing with birds- their perspective. Dillard’s comes from that of a writer and a wordsmith‚ contrasting with Audubon’s of a noted scientist and ornithologist. In the passages‚ both are describing almost

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    Dillard Audubon

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    John James Audubon and Annie Dillard both describe the flights of the flocks of birds the see‚ incorporating their feelings about the experience into their observations. Audubon approaches his flock’s peculiarity with a methodical and scientific view and is mostly amazed with the unusualness of the pigeons but Dillard’s experience of watching the flock of starlings expresses a spiritual and sensational side of bird watching. Audubon firsts writes the place where he saw the pigeons: "in passing over

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    Audubon and Dillard A small child views a painting‚ giggling to his mother how it looks like an elephant soaring throughout the galaxy. An hour later a middle age man views the exact painting only to acknowledge the abstract painting as a collage of miscellaneous shapes and colors. This view is much like the comparison between John James Auburn and Annie Dillard passages‚ revealing opposite and similar aspects on the subject of birds. Auburn’s passage inhabits a sense of seriousness and monotone

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    Audubon And Annie Dillard

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    large flock of birds in flight. The first passage is an excerpt from Ornithological Biographies‚ by John James Audubon‚ while the second passage is an excerpt from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard. Both passages have their similarities when describing a large flock of birds‚ but they also have their differences. Similarly‚ both passages‚ by John James Audubon and Annie Dillard‚ recounted an experience each author had in the past. Each story gives an overall view on the same topic. For example

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    opportunity to see birds migrate. John James Audubon and Annie Dillard are two writers who were able to witness the flight of the birds. They each described the flights differently‚ though. John James Audubon has a pragmatic view and Annie Dillard uses diction in describing both the birds and conveying the effect the birds have on them as observers. Audubon’s view in describing the birds is pragmatic while Dillard’s descriptions use diction. Audubon looks at the birds practically. "163 had been

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    our eyes watch the same scenes‚ our minds tell different stories. As John James Audubon and Annie Dillard gaze at large flocks of pigeons in flight‚ they both experience different emotions and spiritual feelings despite viewing the same scene. In contempt of their varying reactions to the birds‚ both writers enlist a sense of admiration and respect for the beauty present within the nature of the birds. Audubon maintains the presence of a scientific observer as he counts the flocks of birds

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    idiosyncratic species of insects. Both John James Audubon and Annie Dillard describe their personal experiences of witnessing large flocks of birds in flight in their own respective passages. The two authors have similar experiences but they describe the birds in different ways. Both descriptions are full of colorful language style and diction‚ however their two different crafts differentiate the way the event is described. In his account‚ Audubon‚ provides technical information about his account

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    clear and factual passage by John James Audubon that left a pleasant feeling of elation‚ the writings of Annie Dillard were mysterious and invoked a sense of wonder. The two writers had similar word choice‚ considering they are from separate time periods‚ but the syntax could only be more different. Despite talking about the same creature‚ and having a mutual respect for it‚ the way they chose to convey their feelings went in completely different directions. Audubon recounted the event in small talk‚

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    Eclipse By Dillard

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    Instead of being about the solar eclipse described in the first paragraph‚ “Total Eclipse” by Annie Dillard‚ is about the eclipses in our everyday lives. Although she does go into detail about the eclipse‚ she spends more time discussing small details. Dillard spends more of the essay focused on minute details throughout the time leading up to the eclipse than the actual eclipse itself. The title “Total Eclipse”‚ is not talking about the solar eclipse; instead it addresses the eclipses in her life

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    Annie Dillard

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    “Taking our century’s measure‚” for Dillard‚ means taking count and reminding us of all the unfortunate events that have occurred in the past. She seeks to find out how we deal with news of the death of thousands in a natural disaster many miles away. Of course the answer to that is different for each person. Perhaps Dillard wishes for us to help out and make the world a better place in our own‚ unique ways. For me personally though‚ natural disasters that occur around the world do not greatly affect

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