Pray To What Earth
Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong,
Which asks no duties and no conscience?
The moon goes up by leaps, her cheerful path
In some far summer stratum of the sky,
While stars with their cold shine bedot her way.
The fields gleam mildly back upon the sky,
And far and near upon the leafless shrubs
The snow dust still emits a silver light.
Under the hedge, where drift banks are their screen,
The titmice now pursue their downy dreams,
As often in the sweltering summer nights
The bee doth drop asleep in the flower cup,
When evening overtakes him with his load.
By the brooksides, in the still, genial night,
The more adventurous wanderer may hear
The crystals shoot and form, and winter slow
Increase his rule by gentlest summer means.
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Who wrote the poem "Pray To What Earth"?
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862)
Henry David Thoreau was an American poet,
essayist, naturalist, and philosopher. He was a leading transcendentalist and
is best known for this book “Walden,” a personal reflection upon simple living
in nature. His writings display a unique combination of a poetic sensibility,
philosophical austerity, and attention to practical detail. Thoreau was a
lifelong abolitionist, and he pioneered modern-day environmentalism. His
political philosophy of civil disobedience, which argued for disobedience to an
unjust state, later greatly influenced such historical figures as Leo Tolstoy,
Mahatma Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr. He died of tuberculosis at 44.
"Pray To What Earth" explanation
In the poem, the speaker depicts the beauty
of nature using such literary devices as personification and imagery.
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