The first poem that really made me think about Snyder's view on where the bioregion is going is the poem, FRONT LINES. This poem's imagery is really what made it stand out for me. I believe Gary Snyder is calling the destruction human's are doing to the Earth as cancer. The line, "the edge of the cancer swells agains the hill-we feel a foul breeze- and it sinks back down," makes me think of the humans destructing the earth as a disease. Also, the "foul breeze" reminded me of pollution.
In CONTROL BURN, Snyder has a very pessimistic attitude about the destruction being done to the Earth. He talks about how the Indian's burnt everything down, which is clearly not true. In fact, the Indians managed to live off of the land with out over consumption. At the end of the poem, when Snyder says the Earth will return back to how the Indian's maintained it when they held it, Snyder is being sarcastic and really means the opposite. I also think he could mean that we would have to go back to how the Indian's actually lived; living off of the land.
The most blatant part of Turtle Island thus far has been FACTS. In this section Gary Snyder's true annoyance with the over consumption of the United States is just straight written in the form of facts. I really hope I can find a way to intertwine one of my facts with my essay.
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