After learning that Snyder got the
inspiration for his book from traveling around the world and took years to
write I realized how truly connected he is with nature and why he writes the
way he does. To understand many of his poems I have to read them a few times to
grasp the message he is trying to communicate. In class it was interesting to
hear different viewpoints from others who read the poems as I did and how they
interpreted them. Many people mentioned themes I didn’t recognize the in the
first poems I read but found in the second assigned reading. One person mentioned that it almost seemed like Snyder hated man. This was similar to a theme I wrote about, Snyder's dislike of society's destruction of the environment, however, after reading more poems I could definitely see how Snyder could potentially hate mankind.
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