Question

Read the excerpt from John Muir's "Calypso Borealis" and answer the question.

[1] After earning a few dollars working on my brother-in law's farm near Portage [Wisconsin], I set off on the first of my long lonely excursions, botanising in glorious freedom around the Great Lakes and wandering through innumerable tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps, and forests of maple, basswood, ash, elm, balsam, fir, pine, spruce, hemlock, rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty, climbing the trees, revelling in their flowers and fruit like bees in beds of goldenrods, glorying in the fresh cool beauty and charm of the bog and meadow heathworts, grasses, carices, ferns, mosses, liverworts displayed in boundless profusion.

[2] The rarest and most beautiful of the flowering plants I discovered on this first grand excursion was Calypso borealis (the Hider of the North). I had been fording streams more and more difficult to cross and wading bogs and swamps that seemed more and more extensive and more difficult to force one's way through. Entering one of these great tamarac and arbor-vitae swamps one morning, holding a general though very crooked course by compass, struggling through tangled drooping branches and over and under broad heaps of fallen trees, I began to fear that I would not be able to reach dry ground before dark, and therefore would have to pass the night in the swamp and began, faint and hungry, to plan a nest of branches on one of the largest trees or windfalls like a monkey's nest, or eagle's, or Indian's in the flooded forests of the Orinoco described by Humboldt.

[3] But when the sun was getting low and everything seemed most bewildering and discouraging, I found beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream, growing not in the ground but on a bed of yellow mosses in which its small white bulb had found a soft nest and from which its one leaf and one flower sprung. The flower was white and made the impression of the utmost simple purity like a snowflower …

In a paragraph of 3–5 sentences, explain how Muir views nature. Support your answer with two examples from the passage. Explain how each example reveals his view of nature.

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Answer 1

Muir views nature in an experiencing way, fun, and objective, even though sometimes 'beautiful' things might lead you to dangerous places, but you still experiencing nature. "When I told her (the lady) I had entered it in search of plants and had been in it all day, she wondered how plants could draw me to these awful places, and said, "It's god's mercy ye ever got out."" So, form that we know that nature can be pretty beautiful but pretty dangerous as well, and after while those things can even become our friends. With one of these large backwoods loaves, I was able to wander many a long wild fertile mile in the forests and bogs, free as the winds, gathering plants, and glorying in God's abounding inexhaustible spiritual beauty, bread. Storms, thunderclouds, winds in the woods—were welcomed as friends.

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Answer 2

In The Calypso Borealis, Muir describes his emotional experience upon seeing a flower named the Calypso Borealis. The speaker of the poem was sad for some reason, and in that moment of hopelessness, he saw “beautiful Calypso on the mossy bank of a stream.”

It is easy to see that Muir has a rather positive attitude towards nature. Nature brightens up his mood, and he expresses admiration for it. He also admires the flower for its beauty, but also for its adventure and survival despite all the hardships. The positive tone is seen in the following excerpts:

"botanising in glorious freedom";

"rejoicing in their bound wealth and strength and beauty"

The very choice of words (glorious, freedom, rejoicing, wealth, beauty) suggests that nature brings him joy and makes him happy.