http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvkiz_ut0UcAfter reading, the poem Above Pate Valley, over and over again. The poem finally made a lot of sense to me. At first I did not understand what he was doing, and why he was doing what he was doing, but now that I do I understand and see Snyder in a more down-to-earth type of guy. In the poem of Above Pate Valley Snyder displays a hypocritical side to him by explaining what he does during his day, and his actual job profession. Looking through nature trying to find obsidian arrowheads, but his actual job is destroying the nature he looks through. I found that to be a very interesting poem because of the balance that he has from things he wants to do with his day, and things he has to do with his day.
I wrote a poem trying to show my vision of myself and how I feel about nature "The World reflects me, My eyes cannot stop looking, I can't see myself"...... that was a poem I wrote inspired when I read Snyder's poem. It inspired me because I wanted to show people how I felt about myself and nature and how I relate to it like Snyder did.
Two days of my life, I have a lifestyle that seems to be very routine.
I wake up in the morning and brush my teeth and wash my face, and then my day begins.
I start my day looking and wondering how my day can be different from the day before.
Although my daily life is routine, I can always make it different, but why do I have to purposely change it why can it not change itself.
