Question

I need help analyzing this quote please!!

Over the long, low row of pointed roofs were the massive shapes of oak trees in the dark, great swaying forms of myriad sounds under the lowhung stars. The pain for the moment was gone; the confusion was gone. I closed my eyes and heard the wind and the sound of water flowing softly, swiftly in the river. It was enough, for one moment. And I knew that it would not endure, that it would fly away from me like something torn out of my arms, and I would buy after it, more desperately lonely than any creature under God, to get it back. And then a voice beside me rumbled deep in the sound of the night, a drumbeat as the moment ended, saying, `Do what it is your nature to do. This is but a taste of it. Do what it is your nature to do.' (68)

Answer 1

The narrator, in viewing the beauty and simplicity of nature, forgets his troubles for a moment and comes to the realization the the world is so grand and so beautiful that his aliments and confusion are temporarily lost. The narrator then speaks about how this fleeting moment in which the beauty of nature overcame the problems in his life is not permanent and how he will yearn for it desperately. The voice he hears is a reminder that he should essentially go with his gut and follow his nature; the voice tells him the if he follows his nature, the blissful moment he experienced will become his reality as he yearned for it earlier in the passage. The excerpt teaches a lesson about following your nature and not getting caught up too much in materialistic, shallow problems as it illustrates the narrator's bliss after he forgets his material problem and focuses on nature.

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