Nature's way
Storyboard Text
- Nature’s Way by Heidi Campbell has five stanzas with four verses each, quatrain, a rhyme scheme AABB… with end rhymes in all the stanzas. It’s written in first person plural.The punctuation means the transition of scenes but the scenario remains the same, throughout the poem . The characters are the speaker and the reader that are part of the scenario.
- STRUCTURE
- The setting in this poem is nature on a mid-spring day, presenting the flowers, plants, clouds and animals, as well as the sensations these details cause in the reader. The theme is the emphasis that nature and its components can cause incredible sensations of relaxation, when observed in a sensitive way by a person, through all of their senses. The speaker describes nature through the senses of smell, tactile, auditory, visual and kinetic, and presents the cycle of life from a positive perspective, emphasizing the beauty of nature. The conflict is about feeling that shift with all the senses.
- MEANING
- The five senses connect the human to nature: olfactory, tactile, visual, audictory. Throughout the poem, the announcer invites the reader to appreciate the image of that spring day through a figurative language describing the possible sensations that the reader can feel on a beautiful day in mid-spring.
- iMAGERY
- Language is in the present time “Let’s take a look” calling the reader to feel the air, to see the view, to walk, to touch nature. And the future with the word “when altogether all seems good”. There are figures of speech throughout the poem, such as: Personification, onomatopoeia; and patterns of sound: alliteration, consonance and assonance; which together reinforce the components of nature. The personification presented in "And listen to nature tell her tale", for instance, reinforces the presentation of nature in a place of action and prominence within the poem.
- LANGUAGE
- The poem makes us feel happy and alive, immersed in the environment.We can see the beauty of life in nature in the spring season. At the end of the poem, the speaker invites us to listen to nature’s tale. The structure, meaning, imagery, and language, everything has the effect of making us feel and appreciate nature, life with an optimistic outlook.
- EFFECT
- NATURES'S WAY BY HEIDI CAMPBELL
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