For the essay you can just talk about a trip to the park or to Disney world, you can make it up if you’ve never done it before that’s what I do lol
Scansion
Scansion is the act of going through a line of poetry and marking through syllables, which are stressed and which are unstressed. Putting the marking of the whole line together will give the reader an understanding of the meter and rhythm of the line.
1) based on “grove” and “nature” i would assume a variety animal calls
2) “sad thoughts” seem to refer to the “what man has made of man” as it seems the poet is upset that the link of nature and soul is mended in some way. this could be reference towards deforestation or other acts we have caused to destroy nature
Maya likes to swim in the ocean rather than swimming inside the pool