Spontaneous Me Literary Response

Steve Epting
AP English
Spontaneous Me Literary Response
This poem is written by an author that has a strange way of relating things. This poem is an ode to nature. It has a lot of personification in it. The author describes different aspects of nature such as plants, animals, weather, vegetation and human being urges. I think that the author was on a camping trip with a close friend. The author is probably sharing experiences that were good and bad, in the poem, and the author was sharing things that were taking place when they were there. The writer has a peculiar way of explaining things because he or she is comparing like and unlike things together. The target audience is really unidentified. I think that the author is expressing his or her love toward nature in different ways to get their point across.
The diction was great because I got a vivid description in my head. “The hillside whiten’d with blossoms of the mountain ash, The same late in autumn, the hues of red, yellow, drab, purple, and light and dark green.” While reading that quote I got a description of a beautiful hillside, early in the morning, that had different colors in the air because of what season it was. “The hairy wild-bee that murmurs and hankers up and down, that gripes the full-frown lady-flower, curves upon her with amorous firm legs, takes his will of her, and holds himself tremulous and tight till he is satisfied.” That quote was comparing a bee receiving nectar from a flower to a human during sexual intercourse.
This poem appeals to pathos because it has very strong feelings in it such as happiness, excitement, and love. It has a lot of references to love because it says, “Love-thoughts, love-juice, love-odor, love yielding, love-climbers, and the climbing sap. I think the author is trying to get the point across that we should love in everything that we do, even though he used strange references like love-juice and love-odor. This is a whimsical poem because it was erratic and unpredictable.