Reading Notes, week 6, The Coming Night

William Nauns Rick poem The Coming Night creates very vivid imagery for its reader with the use of very descriptive words. Author William Rick talks about the coming of the morning to night and the different parts of nature doing so. Imagery is evidently the most used literary analysis device with William Rick using descriptive words of animals preparing for the night as well as the sky and sea. Animals prepare for a night in a few ways written by the author " cattle down the hillside", "cooling doves and mates in pride" and " Seagulls fly with curving measured sweep" (Ricks). Rick discusses the animal's way to go prepare for sleep and the night. I believe the author discusses the way the world prepares for sleep to give a sense of ease to the reader and which is what I felt while reading his poem. The way the author describes how the earth and different parts of nature as the sun and sky prepare for the day to end is very calming and beautiful to read. " Down sinks the sun... of all his glorious show" and " Clouds once brilliant now are dark" while the words and descriptions the author uses are mostly easing and calming. The way the clouds are described seem like a change of pace and tone in a way to easily describe the change of pace as the night falls clouds that once were bright and brilliant then become dark and dull which I think can also be a metaphor for peoples lives.