Susanna Moodie and Copway

Both Susanna Moodie and Copway speak of nature and environment with admiration by showeing the positive sides of nature. In addition, they both describe nature and the environment as a rough and challenging element of life. Susanna Moodie speaks of the wilderness as pure and a phenomenon that does not interfere with human activities. On the other hand Copway encounters a spectacle in the description of nature as presented in the travel documented in the biography. However, both describe environment and wilderness in distinctive ways that affect their way of presentating Canadian nature.

Moodie describes the environment as an area with wide and stormy seas and chilly blasts with wintry storms. The male speaker also fears the dark forests because he plainly says it (Canadian Poetry 1). It is also evident that what Moodie expected is not what she encounters since she states that her first day’s experience ends without much activity in the land of all their hopes. To add to that the emigrant views his new home in Canada and compares it with native land and then he remembers the warm hearts and bright shiny eyes of his loved ones that are far away. Copway’s regards to nature are clearly depicted when he decides to write about the Ojibwas. He attends a Methodist camp meeting with his father when his mother passed away where he is converted (Copway 14).

Moreover, Copway shows that he is chosen to travel to Lake Superior for the American Methodist Church mission at the age of sixteen, surprisingly, because of his dedication. In fact, the reader is able to note that he travelled a lot when the Great Spirit came to him through the dream he never knew he could travel, but all in all he went to the great lakes, Europe and the upper Mississipp...

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...ure as interesting, addictive to view and beautiful to experience. This explains why the biography illustrates several times that the central person in the book spends time in the landscape on several occasions.

Works Cited

Canadian Poetry. Introduction to the Third Edition, 1854. Web, Accessed, May 24, 2014

Gersdorf, Catrin and Mayer, Sylvia. Nature in Literary and Cultural Studies: Transatlantic Conversations on Ecocriticism. Rodopi, 2006. Print

Copway, George. The Life, History, And Travels Of Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh, George Copway: A Young Indian Chief Of The Ojebwa Nation, A Convert To The Christian Faith, (Large Print Edition). Whitefish, Montana: Kessinger Publishing. 2011, Print

Moodie, Susanna. Roughing it in the Bush; Or, Life in Canada. London, England: Richard Bentley, 1852) and 3rd. ed. (1854). Print