Monday, January 20, 2014
Explication of "The Peace of WIld Things" By Wendell Berry
The title of this piece is paradox. Wild things aren't supposed to be peaceful and peaceful things aren't supposed to be wild. In this poem though, peace does exist within wild things. This idea then leads to sort of mockery of civilization. Humans consider themselves peaceful but in reality, they aren't at all. The poet brings his own thoughts into this poem and it is left to the reader to create a picture of the despair portrayed in this poem. This poet also depicts a scenario in which the future is scary and that it is impossible to predict what will happen. Towards the end of the poem, the author does become at peace, but not with humans. He becomes at peace with the wilder things of the world who have a real idea about what peace actually is.
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