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Awe and Amazement
“Twelfth Song of Thunder” is a poem that sweeps from the grand spectacles of nature (like thunder) to the teeny-tiny spectacles of nature (like grasshoppers). Even though the speaker considers both big and small sounds, and big and small natural scenes, there’s a sense of awe and amazement in considering all of these things. Given that most of us spend most of our time cooped up in apartments or houses, probably glued to a screen of some sort or another, we tend to forget just how amazing nature can be. When was the last time we looked at a grasshopper? This is a poem that reminds us of all of the wonderful things that nature has to offer.
The speaker of this poem shows us that awe and amazement are just a point of view. It’s not nature that makes us feel awe and amazement, it’s how we look and listen to nature that matters.
Sorry there, grasshopper, but big, spectacular things are more likely to give us a sense of awe and amazement than little things.
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