Sunday, October 16, 2011

Alone in the Woods

Alone in the Woods is a poem by Stevie Smith and it is talking about how man is angering nature with how he is acting and how he is treating nature.  Nature is angry because man does not appreciate it and thinks that it is ugly and not beautiful when it really is.  I think this is the authors way of saying that man does not appreciate what is around him and if he doesnt start appreciating it it will turn on him.

Sunday, October 9, 2011

Digging

Digging is a poem written by Seamus Heaney. It is a peom that is describing of his father and grandfather and how they were bouth men  who worked with thier hand and in the fields.  He describes them as hardworking and then he explains how he broke with the tradition and became a writer. This set him apart from his family, but later he came to realize that he could still be hardworking just like his grandfather he would just apply it to writting.