Literary Analysis Week 6

Literary Analysis 

Week 6

3/1/18

Ode to Tropical Agriculture

In this section of text on pg. 388-389, "Ode to Tropical Agriculture" is an imaginary rollercoaster of a poem while reading. I really appreciate the theme of showing love for the beautiful surroundings us humans live in everyday. The words are jumping off the page and shows the connection and time the author Andres Bello took in writing his poetry. Although in the short introduction before the poetry on pg. 388 it says that in the poetry "what he praises is not wilderness but human cultivation". Or in other words he most likely appreciated the beauty of the wilderness but in his poem he was focus on how great humans take the wilderness and transform it into even more beauty. Although I believe that he was praising the wilderness in saying things like "it ask no care by human arts, but freely yields its fruit". Then continues the admiration in the future lines by using literary devices like metaphors to describe the growing process the plants go through, "It grows with swiftness, and when it is outgrown its full-grown children take its place". In this excerpt from the poems gives readers a bit of text to read between the lines to understand how he talks about the children of the plants. This type of writing being the most popular because it makes readers like me think and dive deeper into the poem of what it means. The last sentence of the introduction paragraph for Andres Bello explains how poet's should be in touch with their surroundings because it can play a huge role and gaining inspiration from "their native landscapes". Bello believed that geography will shape the future for extreme and profound art for future artist. As a fan of poverty I understand the inspiration you can absorb from the setting you are in and it can inspire some powerful imagery poems that Andres Bello sees taking over the future of how artist approach their craft.