NATURE

Nature is a place used by many to reflect, reminisce, and enjoy life. People want to escape from their normal daily activities and do something that is different in their lives so they turn to nature. People go to the beach for recreational activities or to just relax and meet up with friends and family. The beach is used for sports, sun bathing, or to just play with friends. In Walt Whitman’s “On the Beach at Night Alone,” part of Leaves of Grass, Whitman speaks of a person walking on the beach. The person is just looking at the stars and thinking of the future. He is relaxing, taking a slow casual walk and taking time to just think. Shawn Hair is a painter who uses dramatic effects of light and shade to bring life to his paintings. In his painting “Spencer Beach Picnic” families are playing in the sand and just taking a walk on the beach. This painting is showing how the beach can be used in may different ways. It shows the love that the artist has for this setting as well as the beauty of it. Artists and writers use nature to show the feelings and moods of the objects in their work. The beach has many characteristics that draw people to come to the beach.

One specific environment that both artists and writers use is the beach. The beach can be very calm and can be used to just hang out for some relaxation. It’s a very convenient place to rest and enjoy life. As the temperature grows high, the sand begins to get hot, making it scorching at times. This quote shows the rising temperature of the beach, “The sand and rocks get very hot, reflecting the sun light and radiating heat. Ripples of heat waves shimmer of the surface like air above hot coals. The reflection of the sun off the sand can give you a sunburn”. This shows why the beach at times can be an uncomfortable place to be. The beach can be a comfortable place to be as well as uncomfortable on your skin. When this is the case, people use beach towels or chairs to protect their body. In “On the Beach at Night Alone” the person in the story is taking a nice stroll on the beach and taking time to think about the world. This shows how the beach can be used for a place to relax because it is calm and quiet. Artists use their painting to depict scenes of nature to show special qualities of that environment.

Painters use their paintings to depict a scene from nature. Shawn Hair uses his painting “Spencer Beach Picnic” to show a way that the beach can be used for. Figure СAТ is referring to the activities that people do on the beach. Shawn Hair feels very strong about nature and his painting that show it such as figure СAТ. Shawn paints in a special way to express his feelings,

“He paints with bold colors and strokes that relay his own enthusiasm for his subjects. The way he emphasizes his inspiration is his message to the viewer, which his paint reveals in a language, all can understand. With passion and skill he forms his impressionistic images preserving the integrity of his subject. From the tranquility of a landscape to the joy of a figure or delicacy of a flower, his masterful control of his brush conveys all”.

This shows how Hair feels about his work. It tells everybody that he wants us to see the enjoyment and fun that the beach has in it. Hair uses his bright color to show the importance of the scene depicted. Authors show their feelings of nature also in their work. They use descriptive words and actions to show us what they think of the environment.

Walt Whitman depicts nature in his poem “On the beach at Night Alone”. Whitman writes of a woman walking on the beach and thinking of the future. As the old mother sways her to and fro singing here husky song, “As I watch the bright stars shining, I think a thought of the clef of the universe and of the future” . He is showing how the beach can calm down a person and the beach allows them to just think. This poem shows the relaxation and calmness that the beach can present to somebody when they are using it. Whitman also says, “All lives and deaths, all of the past, present, future, This vast similitude spans them, and always has spanned”. This quote shows how the beach is a comfortable place to remember ideas from the past and think of the future. Nature can have a comparison between a work of art and literature such as the works here.

Both works here show the beach and what it is like. Both pieces show how the beach is a relaxing and comfortable place to be. Walt Whitman was influenced by nature while he was traveling to New Orleans on the Mississippi river. Here is a quote from Whitman about nature, “The Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature.

This shows what nature means to Walt as was influenced in America when he wrote his literature. Whitman writes novels by using nature to expand the point and plot of the story.

Nature is a place used by many to reflect, reminisce, and enjoy life. People want to escape from their normal daily activities and do something that is different in their lives so they turn to nature. Artists and writers use nature to show the feelings and moods of the objects in their work. The beach has many characteristics, which draw people to come to it. Nature is key to people’s work as it can be a setting or the subject of the work.