In The Nature (the imitation poem based on the poem in page5 of Blood Dazzler)

I see

what the nature does

and taste

bead on my lip

and feel

Adam's ale soaking my body

and hear

thunderous waterfall

and want it

all

Blood Dazzler --- What was the first sound

Look at the transitions between paragraphs or between sections. How does he or she make these transitions? What effect do they have on the forward momentum of the piece?

Basically, the author made the transitions between paragraphs by repeating the last sentence in the foregoing paragraph. This kind of use may look like a little repetitive in a formal paper, but when it is used in a poem, it makes the transition become coherent. It combines the all pieces together.

Chicago in different sights 3

shuttling in the downtown of Chicago,
many different people walk across me,
some with business suits,
some with sweaters,
some with T-shirts,
some with tattered coats......
Even so,
all of them walk so fast,
no time to slow down the steps to look around carefully.
This is the real life in Chicago.

Chicago in different sights 2

Wander along the beach,
went down to touch the sand,
beyond, a young couple are frolicking with their dog,
an adolescent rides across me,
slowly close the eyes,
feel the moderate wind,
listen the mew.
This is another world in Chicago.

Chicago in different sights 1

Standing in the 94th floor of John Hancock Center, overlook the whole Chicago City. There is a serpentine beach along the Michigan Lake in the east. Looking through the windows in the north and west of John Hancock center, the scene outside is not like the 3rd biggest city of American at all. Oppositely, it is more like a small town as same as Ames. However, the core of Chicago is shown in our eyes when we look toward south. Numbers of skyscrapers stand in the downtown.

The Summer Day: Theme

The author began the poem with three questions which cause audience's thinking. Then, she described the motion of the grasshopper in detail. Along with the following poem, I guesss what she wants to express to audiences is that we should spend our short life on feeling the nature. Slow down our steps and observe the nature around us. In addition, as what she said that "I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass......", I think that shows her atitude toward the life, which is also the theme of this poem. Just make life easier.

Ninemile Wolves: Themes

The story of Ninemile Wolves is connected by tracking a pack of wolves. The main ideas of this piece is to give audiences a brief realization of wolves' habits and the change in America in the past years. In 1920s, the government planned to hunt and kill all the predator including wolves in America. People replaced wild land with farms. Obviously, America lost its wilderness. Almost all the wolves were exterminated. The increaseing population of deers and elks broke the balance of nature. After that, the government began to do the reintroduction of wolves. The author also talked about the balance between wolves and human beings. The wolves are chasing deers while people are chasing wolves.

Refuge: The specific details stay in my mind

At the beginning of this article, the author introduced a lot about the Great Salt Lake especially on the rise of the level of Great Salt Lake. In order to make the boring geographic depiction lively, the author cited an all-known experiement in school to illustrate the characteristic of the lake. Also, the specific experiement enable us to understand the variety of area and volume of the lake better. Besides that, the author specialized a lot of exact numbers to show the rise of water level, and one of them, which is the water level that meant the flooding of the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, is the number that the author really cared about. It smoothly lead up to the following paragraphs which are about Refuge and her family. In addition, the details introduced above claimed the importance of water level change to the Rufuge which is the main point of this article.