He beloved it would take the lives of his fellow citizens
A my parents want us to be home before it gets dark
“A wind-storm in the forests” is more essay than story, but perhaps it is best described as a mood-piece: it uses a lot of musical imagery, not to mention sea imagery, religious imagery, and any other imagery that suits his purpose. And that purpose? To convey the grandeur and timelessness of the forests he loves and wants to protect. The story commences with a discussion of trees in the Sierra and how they variously respond to the wind, and then moves onto a description of a particular wind-storm during which he climbed a 100 ft Douglas Spruce to experience the storm first hand. <span>All eight pages or so are written in idolatrous prose like this. According to Wikipedia, Muir found writing hard, feeling that words were not really up to the task. Whether the problem is words or Muir himself, the prose </span>is<span> a little heavy-handed – and yet how wonderful it is to have the writings of such a man. We would, I think, have been the poorer without a written record of his passion.</span>
in <em>The Waste Land</em> from T.S. Elliot there are a lot of allusions, which are references to persons things or places that the writer uses to say a whole lot with less words. In the sentence : "Madame Sosostris, famous clairvoyante.......", the author makes the allusion to the cunning tarot card reader and with the use of the various tarot card he furthermore gives allusions to happenings further in the poem. Some of the cards are : the Drowned Phoenician Sailor, The blank card, the hanged man , all with a meaning that the writer does not explicitly tells you but you must know from knowledge of the tarot cards. This you get from research and readings into the backgrounds of all these allusions
True because sometimes authors write just because they want to and other times it’s because they have an actual purpose and want too.