Wright's understanding of the relationship between humans and the land reflects her own past growing up in a pastoralist family and later work as an environmental activist. ... The stories of the past are an integral part of the observer's relationship with the land. ... The landscape is "broken", "stripped", "left for dead,/like a wrecked skull". ... The land in this poem takes on a spiritual dimension with the biblical allusion to the act of communion in "the song made flesh". ... Her love of the land is an intensely spiritual one which sh...

• Word Count: 1047
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Carew writes: Ask me no more where those stars light That downwards fall in dead of night; For in your eyes they sit, and there, Fixed become as in their sphere. ... It truly is a beautiful thought to see a star fall from the sky and land in this beautiful woman's sparkling eyes. ...

• Word Count: 1528
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate