In Class Writing

There is only one stanza and 12 lines for the poem. Although there is only one period in the poem, I think the poem can be divided into three sentences. The first sentence is starting with Nature is what we see; the second sentence is starting with Nature is what we hear; the last sentence is starting with Nature is what we know. In my opinion, the poet use these sentences to emphasized that we can see nature from different perspectives. People should understand and appreciate nature from both visual and auditory. I see connection with daily life and nature like cricket and thunder. I see abstract ideas and living things like bumblebee and heaven. THese connection highlight and create an image inside reader's mind and give them a more vivid feeling of the poem. Readers can “see” how the flying bee a on the hill create a wonderful painting that seem to be paradise.

By reading the poem out loud I found out that there are a lot of rhyme such as bee, see, and sea. Also the sentence structure repeat in the first and second sentences which gives readers a joyful feeling that how wonderful the nature is. By using our imagination, we can see a beautiful painting like heaven, or a dulcet song. However, this joyful tone ended at the last sentence which change the float of the poem from joyful to regrettable. The poet said that all the thing we see and hear are limited by what we know. She gives the reader a question that does we really understand nature? Is nature really simple or because we can’t understand it only by using the knowledge we have. How should we look at nature?  By forming a contrast from the first and second sentences, which emphasized the question at last sentences that can people really understand nature because people are only interpreted nature from their own perspective.