Margaret Avison Meaning

The collage I made was based on the poem “Crowd Corralling”, by Margaret Avison. Margaret Avison uses nature to depict the symbolism in each image and she plays on the title “Crowd Corralling”, meaning crowd gatherings, to show people coming together. The beginning of the poem creates a vivid image of nature, like for example when the author states, “Hard rain. the bean-mash smell. leaky tin-brim spill. grass-soak:”. It depicts an image of a thunderstorm, creating an image of a dark atmosphere, drops of water from leaves, and a distinguishing smell. These images are a representation of how the author tries to show crowds of people, through rain drops in droplets and puddles, representing too many people in an area, causing a overflowing. The

The poem starts off with dark imagery, which creates a feeling of sadness, but during the end of the poem the author creates an image of dark clouds vanishing and a ray of happiness shining through the darkness, which makes the reader of the poem feel happy, therefore the adjective “flourishing and blooming” was used because even though nature has its flaws, it is always overcomes by its beauty, since the beauty of nature never dies because it always grows. This poem is about how people are brought together, which is represented in every picture Margaret Avison’s poem creates. For example, nature can be “captivating” by all the scenery and landscapes, because they are a gift for us to appreciate. Nature is “beautiful”, since there is nothing that compares to the beauty of nature and nature is beautiful even in the rain. The last adjective “peaceful” can be used to describe the poem because the poem creates an image of nature and how in nature it’s relaxing, since it is a peaceful environment for people to gather