Question 6 (Essay Worth 15 points)
A
(04.01 HC)
Read the excerpt from John Muir's "Calypso Borealis" and answer the question.
(1) Anter earning tew dollars working on my brother-in law's farm near Portage [Wisconsin), I set otf 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 l
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, cances, temns, 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
the largest trees or windfalls like a monkey's nest, or eagle's, or Indian's |
the
nlooded 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
the ground but on
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 tike a snowflower ...
how Muir views nature. Support your answer with two examples from the passage. Explain how each example reveals his
In a paragraph of 3-5 sentences, explain
view of nature.
revious Question
Question 1 (Answered)
0 p
Next Que
ecrease Indent)
ype here to search
Hi
76°F Cloudy