This time when I was going through the book, I decided to skip to
different sections of the book, instead of reading the poems in order. Each
poem is different in certain ways, but essentially they are all concentrated
around bioregionalism. The reader is able to clearly tell how much Gary Snyder
focuses on environmental issues and it highlights how much he cares about the
earth and especially nature. I think it is important how descriptive each of
his poems is. It helps the reader understand how important the place Snyder
describes is and it helps you see the place in a clear view. To me it seems
that Snyder reflects back to earlier, more natural times in his poems and wants
readers to give more thought to those times before we began to mess up the environment
so greatly.
Just realized I commented on the wrong post. This post relates well to my experience with reading Turtle Island. I too have found most of his poems center on themes of Environmentalism, the key difference being the place/people/thing that is the object of the poem.
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