Gary Snyder's Turtle Island

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Gary Snyder’s Turtle Island contains a series of almost fifty poems that mention various issues and complications considered to be luminous, clear, and quite frankly even political. Snyder highlights the idea of naturalism, a movement that attempts to illustrate how every individual should be one with nature and should be able to embrace as well as conform to our natural surroundings. All of these poems take interest in the common foresight and perspective of the fact that we have become natives of this certain place, but instead, we choose not to think or act as though we are newcomers, guests, and invaders; to Gary Snyder, we have practically ruined the true definition of peace with the destruction of the nature around the people. Turtle …show more content…

When anyone has the chance to understand what they are attempting to save and respect, they can at last comprehend the dire necessity to display the appropriate affection to nature. Gary Snyder’s “By the Frazier Creek Falls” illustrate a beautiful landscape in a touching and loving matter that reveal the notion of how everything together in a natural environment is alive and just exquisite. He portrays this scenery how “The creek falls to a far valley. Hills beyond that facing, half-forested, dry-clear sky strong wind in the stiff glittering needle clusters of the pine-their brown round trunk bodies straight, still; rustling trembling limbs and twigs. Listen” (Snyder 41). Using the word “trembling” demonstrates how delicate nature is, and basically in other worlds, this all exist in a gentle, graceful balance that Snyder suggests we can dwell with peacefully. If we were to simply “listen” to our environment and sense how peaceful our natural surroundings surely is, respecting and preserving this peace can subsequently be compelling and urgent options. People can change their ways and routines and learn to live without the continual disrespect and destruction of the environment; by then, we can ultimately become part of nature and live in peace and unity with one another as well as …show more content…

The best possible technique to ensure success of anything is by persevering through the hardship and hindrance that obstructs what we truly may want. Snyder wrote “For the Children” towards the end of the book with a more upbeat tone to illuminate a more positive, affirmative outlook in the future. In this poem, he advised,” To climb these coming crests one word to you, to you and your children: stay together, learn the flowers, go light” (Snyder 86). This ending piece of advice creates a positive and uplifting image that pushes the beauty of our natural landscape to the upcoming generations. Snyder encourages the next generations to cooperate together and to “learn the flowers,” or basically to study the elegance and delicacy of nature. With many “crests” and obstacles obscuring and hindering people’s viewpoints and attitudes to nature, early development and learning about nature can potentially solve the environmental problems society is currently facing now, and people can finally experience what nature truly is. The positive outlook into the future from this poem exemplifies how beautiful nature certainly is, and early exposure to this magnificent scene can assist later improvement and preservation of this alluring landscape Snyder is

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