Essay on By the River by Steven Herrick

About three hundred miles up the Mississippi River form its mouth. Many parish above New Orleans and well north of Baton Rouge. A new navigation lock in the Mississippi’s right bank allows ships to drop out of the river. When they drop they tend to descend as much as thirty-three feet. Then go off to the west or south whichever way they decide to go. The adjacent is known as Cajun country.

Herrick also represents this change through his use of natural imagery and pathetic fallacy; exemplified in the poem “Hobos like us”, “Sit in the sunshine”. Old Bill’s view of the world slowly starts to change, as the protagonist reduces his consumption of alcohol and ventures to move on with his life. This is done through Herrick’s use of Motif throughout the novel of Old Bills alcoholic nature.

Master establishes a foil in these two Spoon River Anthology poems as the reader observes the differences in the characters’ lives and outlooks. Uniquely, Masters creates characters who have died and now look back on their lives to give advice to the reader. For example, in “George Gray”, George is dead but knows he did not live life with a purpose. He

Ron Rash’s novel—Saints at the River—begins with a short prologue, in which, a twelve year old girl drowns. Rash uses lyrical syntax and emotionally-charged imagery to establish a macabre tone.

Throughout A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean emphasizes the relationship between nature, art, and faith. The concise, simple sentence with which he chooses to open his story captures the essence of all one hundred pages: in his family, 'there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing' (1). Reverend Maclean believes that both fly fishing and spiritual belief are 'exact arts,' if such a term can exist without paradox. The Reverend holds the firm conviction that 'all good things ' trout as well as eternal salvation ' come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy' (4). This belief system obviously espouses a view of the world as meticulous and well-ordered:

When Fish ‘feels the death coming unstuck from him with a pain like his guts are being torn from him’ his longing to stay with the water becomes evident. Coming back to life is described through the simile of ‘the most awful sickfeeling in him like his flesh has turned to pus and his heart to shit.’ Through Fish’s longing of death, Quick’s despair with life is emphasised through the metaphorical argot of ‘lonelysick wakefulness.’ The despair etched into Quick and Fish’s relationship is mirrored in the personification of the house ‘twisting its joists, hugging inwards, sucking in air.’ The agony Quick feels over his brother’s inability to grow up is reflected in his relationship with Fish, along with Fish’s despair for the water. The mirrored agony is the essence of the relationship, which can be closely understood by society’s desire for closure and peace.

St Mary’s County is considered to be part of the Western Shore and extends from Charlotte Hall to its most Southern tip at Point Lookout. The peninsula is bordered by the Potomac River on the southeast, the Patuxent River on the northeast and the Chesapeake Bay (cite) to the east making it an ideal spot for abundant water activities such as fishing, jet skiing, water skiing, kayaking, and paddle boarding. The concern is that the access to these waterways is limited, especially in Leonardtown. Local water enthusiasts who desire to launch their crafts have to do so in remote locations throughout St Mary’s County. These include Abell's Wharf, Chaptico Wharf, Great Mills Kayak and Canoe launch, Greenwell State Park, Piney Point Landing, and

Weintraub affected his audience to feel sympathy in his article. In his work, he quotes Moyle saying, “‘We’re doing more than just bringing back a few fish into the system. We’re bringing back a river and that’s going to be amazing thing’” (Moyle 5). Moyle’s opinion provided potential to the river restoration plan, and have it seem as if it’s an accomplishment to California. If bringing the river back is shown to be something to take gratification for, then it makes people who support and who want to support feel

“The Life River” was written to allow readers to understand the difficulties of life and how this Poem explains how people feel and act when things continuously doesn’t go they way it was supposed to, or when something bad happens over and over again. The people eventually turn to their last source of secretary to escape. Their mind. In “The Life River,” the writer uses simile, metaphor, and personification to portray that although life is frustrating, the only way to deal with it is to face the fact and go with the flow.

The speaker’s demons from within are symbolized with, “Beasts of the hill and serpents of the den” to communicate how terrifying they are (Roethke, 6). The use of geological locations, “That place among the rocks—is it a cave, / Or winding path? The edge is what I have” symbolizes the speaker abstractly to represent their position with their feelings (Roethke, 11-12). By incorporating a cave and winding path in this poem, his audience can get a better understanding of how trapped and vast the speaker’s emotional journey is. Roethke’s mention of birds, “A night flowing with birds, a ragged moon,” symbolizes the speaker’s desire to by free (Roethke, 14).

Poetry has a role in society, not only to serve as part of the aesthetics or of the arts. It also gives us a view of what the society is in the context of when it was written and what the author is trying to express through words. The words as a tool in poetry may seem ordinary when used in ordinary circumstance. Yet, these words can hold more emotion and thought, however brief it was presented.

Robert Herrick was a 17th century poet, born and raised in England, a huge focus in his poetry was his Christian faith. A common theme among all Herrick’s poetry is that life is fleeting so to find the beauty in the world and fall in love. A popular work of Herrick’s, “The Vine,” follows a man that dreams of himself as a vine and sexualizes a woman, Lucia. In “The Vine,” Herrick utilizes allusion and diction to demonstrate the theme of perversion.

Herrick states that the pursuit of enjoyable experiences should be the primary concern of those with youth as this is the only time in their lives that they will be able to attain such a high degree of joy. The author depicts the speaker as an older person who is trying to convince individuals with youth to forgo any risk and not worry about the future. To this effect the speaker uses nature and its seasons to convince the reader that youth should be used to acquire as many joyful experiences as possible. To do this, the speaker implores to the youths that “Old time is still a-flying” (Herrick 2) and that “Tomorrow will be dying” (Herrick 4). Herrick also uses his rhyme scheme to emphasize the natural and simplicity of his argument. The author instills a sense of interconnectivity between the genders by using both Masculine and Feminine rhymes sequentially and thus “Herrick moves in directions that challenge accepted gender configurations.” (Landrum 205). The simplicity of the rhyme scheme, ABAB, instills the reader with a sense of easiness and flow to the author’s argument further emphasizing that carpe diem should be the utmost importance. Furthermore, by internally rhyming “That age is the best which is the first” (Herrick 9) the consonance draws the reader to the line and emphasizes the message that being the first to “seize the day” is the best. All in all, Herrick used both nature symbolism and simplistic rhyme scheme

Childhood is a time in which one’s personality begins to be revealed and shaped. Though everyday events in one’s childhood may seem insignificant, these mundane moments will be remembered long into adulthood. These ordinary moments can be seen in a glimpse of Theodore Roethke’s poems. Throughout Roethke’s childhood and adult life, he was exposed to difficult situations. These events significantly impacted his poetry later in his life, and he uses rhythm to express his poem’s themes of grief, nature, and mental illness, along with rhyme and alliteration.

In the North Queensland Resource Planning and Development, the consumption of high quality drinking water has become a major issue. Due to the limited supply of fresh water in other states and South East Queensland, a major re-education of the public on water usage has occurred. The demand for water has increased within the Cairns region, so to provide the extra water needed for the Far North community, the government is considering tapping into the Mulgrave Aquifer. On further investigation, it was seen that this process would be quite expensive to go ahead with. A more viable option would be to source the water directly from the Mulgrave River. The purpose of this report is to analyse and discuss the water quality of four locations along the Mulgrave River.