Question

Explain and analyze Gary Snyder's concept of the wild. Be sure to explain, with examples, how Buddhist philosophy and metaphors relate to Snyder's view. What could it mean to "practice" the wild

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

Snyder's concept of the wild is a landscape rich and diverse and interesting for everyone (human and non-human). That it is about living in a natural unintimidated environment. He likened it the Buddhist Dharma, a word which describes the inter relationship of the elements of the empirical world. To practice the wild would be to live within natural, unspoiled natural systems.

Answer 2

Gary Snyder's poetry addresses the life-planet identification with unusual simplicity of style and complexity of effect this simplicity and complexity derives from Snyder's use of natural imagery (geographical formations, flora, and fauna) in his poems. Such imagery can be both sensual at a personal level yet universal and generic in nature

Explanation:Snyder has always maintained that his personal sensibility arose from his interest in Native Americans and their involvement with nature and knowledge of it; indeed, their ways seemed to resonate with his own. And he has sought something akin to this through Buddhist practices. Snyder saw humankind as part of nature. Snyder rejects the perspective which portrays nature and humanity in direct opposition to one another.

There are many tasks The Practice of the Wild takes on. At its heart, it is a book about what happened to us, meaning how we pulled ourselves so far from a lived connection to lived landscapes. In that way, it's a kind of history of human beings and their relationship to land and life. But before he begins that history, Snyder also lays out distinctions between nature, wild and wilderness.