`Nature` by Ralph Emerson, `Apparently with no surprise` by Emily Dickinson, `Desert Places` by Robert Frost, `kitchenette building` by Gwendolyn Brooks, `Howl` by Allen Ginsberg, `The White Heron` by Sarah Orne Jewett, and `To a Waterfowl` by William Cul

1 . In Ralph Waldo Emerson 's work , Nature , the speaker forces the reader to analyze their core beliefs and values . The speaker asks , why should we grope among the dry bones of the past , or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe ? The sun shines today also . By asking this simple question , the speaker is essentially asking the audience why they should accept the beliefs and traditions handed down to them through their ancestors instead of creating their own . This question is furthered when the speaker states , There are

new lands , new men , new thoughts . Let us demand our own works and laws and worship . The speaker is making a call to his readers for a change in society . Rather than blindly accept the laws and beliefs from long gone ancestors , the speaker is challenging his audience to be independent thinkers , and follow their own path of discovery , rather than continue to be force fed hundred year old traditions

2 . In the poem , Apparently With No Surprise , the speaker is admiring a flower and suddenly it dies . Through the language in the poem , it seems as though the speaker is questioning whether God oversees life and death within nature . In this poem , nature is portrayed as a brutal assassin , taking the life from an innocent and blooming flower . The Frost is named the murderer , but the speaker says that it has done so in accidental power ' while at play . The speaker proceeds to question whether there is a God that controls nature 's violent tendancies . In the last few lines of the poem , the speaker answers her own questions , by noting that God is approving of nature 's , which is reflected in the line that reads , The Sun proceeds unmoved to measure off another Day for an Approving God . The tone of the poem suggests that the speaker things that God is just as malevolent as nature for allowing nature to take its course

3 . The most important characteristic of the landscape in Desert Places ' is the snow . Frost notes that the ground is almost covered smooth in snow , which gives the reader a sense of coldness and expansive nothingness in an environment that is typically warm and inviting . It seems as though Frost is comparing this desert to himself By stating that the desert is a blanker whiteness of benighted snow with no expression , Frost gives the reader a sense of emptiness that not only is a characteristic of the snow , but also of how empty and emotionless he feels . Frost ties together the desert and his own emotions in the last few lines of the poem . Frost ties the of a vast and barren desert with the feelings of emptiness and lack of emotion that he feels about his own life . By ending the poem with the line , to scare myself with my own desert places , Frost displays his fear at his absolute lack of emotion and emptiness

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