RiteofSpring分析高级写作.doc

Analysis RhetoricallyRite of Spring is an essay which focuses on describing gardening-the reason why the author dug up a patch before doing anything, the reason why the author cannot help raising vegetables, in turn, to reflect the glamour hiding in gardening and spring. The writer didnt tell a word directly about the spring but to convey it by how gardening is moral and neurotic to us. Sketchy in style, and the word character building is the key to both spring and life, which is really a subtle pun. At the beginning of the article, the composer said that he didnt like gardening or vegetables, but dug up a patch when he had the house. This stimulated my interest, so, what forced him to broadcast and till the soil? Then he painted aesthetic pictures when the spring comes:” But inevitably a morning arrives when, just as I am awakening, a scent wafts through the window, something like earth-as-air, a scent that seems to come up from the very center of this planet. And the sun means business, suddenly, and has a different, deeper yellow in its beams on the carpet. The birds begin screaming hysterically, thinking what I am thinkingthe worms are deliciously worming their way through the melting soil.” How vigor the scene is! Anybody would be touched on heart by the original nature. The first paragraph is written by tell words, easy to understand and quickly attract the readers curiosity. However, when depict the beautiful sight of the spring, lots of show words are used, analogy and the structure of sentence is more flexible and more appealing. Although there are many happiness when plants growing, there are many troubles when take care of them. “Gardening is a moral occupation, as well, because you always start in spring resolved to keep it looking neat this year, just like the pictures in the catalogues. But by July, you once again face the chaos of unthinned carrots, lettuce and beets.” That requires you do the hand-cultivating to the tiny plants and your paternal and maternal generosity to those helpless vegetables. Author here create two characters: his wife and wifes mother. Women are usually more careful and thoughtful where men are not. That explains well how difficult sometimes the gardening is and that made my doubt further deeper, difficulty as it is, why you garden it? Finally, the composer gave us his answer. “I garden, I suppose, I must. In some pocket of the mind there may even be a tendency to change this vision into a personal reassurance that all this healthy growth, this orderliness and thrusting life must somehow reflect similar movements in ones own spirit. Without a garden to till and plant I would not know what April was for.” Actually gardening is an extension of peoples life; you can change the way you struggling but cannot stop struggling. You have to admit that sometimes you make serious mistakes, and only by correct those errors can you make progress. Standing on your dignity can do nothing but to make things worse. And thats what the gardening all about-character building. Writer here made an excellent metaphor: Adam. Our ancestor is a gardener who goes through the pain of typhoon, drought and his own stupidity, watches the endless reviving and keeps the wishes: Do it right this year! Why our ancestor a gardener but not anything another? Only gardener has such strong nerves. At the end of the passage, the author point out that the paragraph were written in December. The whole passage doesnt say a word about spring but leave a beautiful scene of spring in our mind. It not only praises the spring but also illustrates the truth of life. Watching big things through small ones maybe the biggest highlight in this composition. t