Mark O’Connor Imagery

Poet and Environmentalist, Mark OConnor, expresses his admiration for the alternate(prenominal) and resilient aspects of which nature is comprised. The persistence of nature depicts the ideas that nature is conscionable as, if not more, dominant as man. His poems Turtles hatch and To Kill An Olive explore these themes and elucidate OConnors compelling perspective of nature. These two poems hold distinctively optical images that enable the reader to envisage the scene presented.Turtles Hatchings poetic recount encapsulates the trials and tribulations of the turtles. OConnor describes the turtles as high revving toys, ready for their adventure at life. He elucidates the persistence of the turtles by using distinctively visual images describing how determined these turtles were at ambit their safe haven Scrambling in sand, scrabbling in slime, or sculling deluded through sand-pools to beaches of death. This alliteration of the visual images highlights the desperation of the turtle s on their fight for survival.OConnor has created a distinctive image to aid readers in creating an idea of just how determined and persistent, not only the turtles were, but also just how determined the crabs were at preventing the turtles from arrival their goal. Queued up crabs gives readers an image of an army of crabs so many as they wait for the turtles to come. non only was natures tenacity evident in Turtles Hatching, OConnor has also brought this theme to the readers attention in To Kill An Olive. OConnor has started fall out To Kill An Olive, diving straight into the resilience and persistence of olives trees.He has accumulated the many things that are incompetent of killing an olive tree elucidating just how determined they are at overpowering man. Hack one down, chow out a ton of main root for furl, and next spring every side-root sends up shoots. OConnor has depict visually these connotations of just how in destructive these trees are, despite are the treatment it is being subject to. OConnor has do reference to the prolonged period of time these olive trees has been persistent in overcoming mans many obstacles. Burnt-out ribsof military blockade machines not only highlights how long these olive trees have been standing for, but also how the tree has deluge the old-timed machines and gone and lived another age. The distinctively visual images used here can encapsulate this theme and gives readers a deeper understanding of the tenacity these olive trees are willing to relinquish. OConnor is fascinated by just how much human beings underestimate nature. The smallest creatures can overcome any adversity and the dullest of trees can overpower any man. Nature, if it wants to, can be just as powerful as man. In Turtles Hatching, Mark OConnor has done just this.